Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strongly they implied that Nominee Roosevelt had anted out of turn, anticipating the Republican Nominee's first square-off at the farm issue scheduled to be delivered at Des Moines 48 hours later. Hastily rushed to the press was Governor Landon's own crop insurance plan, to wit: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." Two nights later at the Des Moines fair grounds, the Republican nominee laid down chip-by-chip his full bid for the agricultural vote...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell who once lectured him in Government 1, and by that archfoe of New Deal tax policy, Yale's President James Rowland Angell (TIME, June 15). To the crowds outside in the rain, fighting with police for admission, microphones carried a rare piece of Presidential wit...
...dance and song achievement" goes, it was nothing extraordinary for that pair. There were no great song hits and no unusual dances. But there was wit, and grimacing, and cold-shouldering to Astaire-Rogers perfection...
...County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal in her embroidered shawl; Lithuania's Jurgis Ciurlys, director of machines of the Lithuanian State Rail ways; Poland...
...most accomplished defender of the principle of divine right; to liberals he appeared the archenemy of progress, democracy and the rights of man. To his most recent biographer, however, these are among the lesser distinctions of Clement Wenceslas Lothaire Nepomucene Metternich, ranking little higher than his fabulous wit, his great personal charm, his ability to work without seeming to do so. Although Metternich never mentioned it in his memoirs, and described himself as having always been motivated by his hatred of the Jacobins, Author du Coudray says that he used revolutions when they suited his purposes, the fear of them...