Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't do so well among the 15 men each receiving a total earned and unearned income of $20,000. The vote was Landon 12, Roosevelt 3. As a whole the class gave 357 votes to Landon, 199 to Roosevelt, 14 to Thomas, 1 to Fr. Coughin's Union candidate, Congressman Lemke, and 5 to Browder, the Communist. Today Roosevelt would receive 45 less votes...
...heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before and he repeated again that the whole subject of labor relations is in a process of evolution and the U. S. has a great deal to learn...
Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
...wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor to try to make the anxious M. P.s believe that no plan for compulsory non-military...
Last week, attired in a slithering backless blue satin evening gown, she sent the royal hosts and guests swinging with hot choruses of the latest U. S. numbers. Said the ''Bronx Bombshell" after her performance: "I was busy as a bee the whole evening looking at all the famous faces. This is an evening that I will remember all my life...