Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his budget message, President Roosevelt was host at luncheon to silvery-whiskered Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Democratic whip. How soon, asked the President, could Congressional business be attended to? By May 15? Illinois' Lewis thought not before July...
...Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator Glass's banking bill of last summer seemed radical indeed at the time...
...poor score records of the Crimson sextet there is considerable potential strength in the out fit as was shown in occasional flashes of brilliance in all of the games played this season. With more experience and the improved technical performance that accompanies it, Stubbs may be able to whip into shape a team that will show up favorably in the league contests, which begin Saturday with a game with Princeton at Princeton...
...Chiselers," "Old Guard lookout men," and "Rugged Individualists," were his principal targets of attack on his barnstorming trips out of Washington to sell NRA to the country. He can whip almost any audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...
...them knew or cared that State Prosecutor Karl Werner, after hurling philippics for weeks at the five Reds, had ended by admitting that the State had no case against three of them, the Bulgarians Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff. Against the German prisoner, Comrade Ernst Torgler, onetime Reichstag whip of the German Communist Party, Prosecutor Werner summed up thus: "When I put everything together I come to the conclusion that Torgler, in some way or other, had an active part in the Reichstag fire. The nature of such participation has not been 'shown in the proceedings before this court...