Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress passed Administrator Harrington's law just about the way he wanted it. President Roosevelt signed it without commenting on the 130-hour provision...
Earl Long also telegraphed WPAdministrator F. C. ("Pink") Harrington in Washington asking for "data that you have obtained in a private way that would help us throw light on the befuddled condition at L. S. U.; also anything that you have found that has any bearing on irregularities involving any official or employe of the State of Louisiana." Two L. S. U. supervisors and its construction superintendent resigned. The latter, George Caldwell, his assistant, and a WPA foreman were promptly arrested, charged with diverting WPA labor and materials to private uses...
...Smith and his faithful wife, Thelma, were bundled into a big black police car for an exciting ride to Baton Rouge. Another car in front and one behind were filled with deputies. Two motorcycle policemen led the way, a squadron of press cars followed. The motorcade raced through traffic at 60 m.p.h. with all sirens wide open...
...which was already shot full of holes) but to preserve the peace system, was received by Sir John Simon, Britain's cold, cautious, legalistic Foreign Secretary, with a yawn. Britain answered that she would be satisfied if Japan reaffirmed her pledge to maintain the Open Door, a polite way of saying that she did not care whose throat...
...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...