Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends. Within Rear Admiral Grayson, head of the inaugural committee, wrestled with an obdurate President, trying to induce him to hold the inauguration in the dry chamber of the House. Noon came, and Franklin Roosevelt's term of office expired but not his tenacity. He had the last word as the curtain fell: "If they can take it, I can take it." Act III was the taking of the oaths. More than 20 minutes late the ex-President and ex-Vice President came out to the dripping inaugural stand. John Nance Garner was the first to make history. Senator...
...back the challenge word by word in tones which fairly cried aloud...
...part of shipping companies to have quarantine regulations modified. For the first time since 1744 ships may tie up in New York Harbor without pausing for medical inspection of passengers and crew. The U. S. Public Health Service and the New York City Health Department hereafter will take the word of the chief medical officers aboard SENIOR SURGEON AKIN "Permission is granted...
Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...
...Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, plus its affiliated lay organizations, the National Federations of Temple Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods. Like the Rabbis, the Union seemed no longer sure of the virtues of modernism and Americanism. It was aware that enemies, in and out of Jewry, use the word "assimilation" as an insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors...