Word: week-ends
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...Negro at the Hyde Park Station had been more perspicacious, he need not have asked his question. U. S. Presidents do not break off a week-end on Saturday night for nothing. Sunday morning Franklin Roosevelt was back at the White House. That evening at the White House he held a formal council of war with the general officers of his legislative army, revealed to them his strategy for ending a Congressional session that after seven months had outlived not only its normal span but its political usefulness...
...only a dream. After a week-end of public outcries, the Senate committee changed its mind, decided not to tax the "little fellow," went on to other decisions and indecisions, successive scenes in the nightmare of writing a tax bill...
...might be," said overwrought Nat Patton, "that I used some money out of my own pocket." Over the week-end he recalled ownership of $886 in lien notes and Texas State warrants which, added to $1,100 in mileage and cash on hand," brought his total funds for the period...
...make one day last indefinitely, keep unwelcome bills at bay for weeks. Thus on the evening of May 13 the Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease on life, approved the TVAmendments, upheld the President's Bonus veto, heard Huey Long through a record one-man filibuster, extended nuisance taxes, passed the Social Security Bill, took a long week-end off over July 4, and adopted the AAAmendments...
...Ackerly, a sea captain who had been drafted to do character bits, possessed a quality that Lily considered secretive glamour but which U. S. readers may put down as plain British dullness. Lily was finally ready to run away with him. But after one look at the dingy, unromantic week-end quarters he had found for them, she raced home to mother...