Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arkansas. The President is supposed to have assured him several times over that he could have the first vacancy on the Court. Senators, not only Democrats but Republicans, were practically unanimous in urging his appointment. Senators Byrnes and Harrison went to the White House to put in a good word for him. Senator Borah wrote the President a letter on his behalf. The U. S. Senate, "Greatest Club in the World." seemed unanimously to feel that for long loyalty to the New Deal, its Member Joe Robinson should be rewarded...
...Generalissimo Franco not only wanted Bilbao, the second industrial city of Spain, but he wanted it whole. Fearful of enraging world opinion, neither side in Spain has used poison gas as yet. Basques worried greatly last week at the capture of dozens of Rightist soldiers carrying gas masks, and word from secret agents that Rightist gas squads were being organized behind the lines...
...reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely in a broadcast warning against "twisting." New York Life settled out of court. Some self-styled insurance counselors are indeed "twisters," though even more are simply insurance agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws...
...word spread throughout Ormond Beach, solemn groups gathered at the gates of the walled estate. Similar scenes occurred at his Lakewood, N. J. estate, where Mr. Rockefeller lately spent his summers, and at Pocantico Hills, where Mr. Rockefeller had bought up whole villages to create his 3,500 acre dukedom, with its 50 mi. of roads, vast landscaping, staff of hundreds, private police force. Familiar to Mr. Rockefeller's neighbors, north and south, was his greeting: "Good day and God bless you." Many prized one of the 20,000 dimes he had bestowed with the admonition "Save...
According to word from Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, these men have been chosen for the rites on final Thursday, just before the awarding of diplomas...