Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth about William Shakespeare's ancestry is that it was English...
...bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
...virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president...
...Tacitly rebuked William Green for pledging A. F. of L. to support the President's neutrality program. The convention approved cash & carry sales to warring nations, stayed neutral on repeal of the arms embargo...