Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...female secretary almost fainted. Congressmen withdrew gingerly. "Very beautiful," commented Mrs. Owen, She picked up the reptile-a household pet of Dr. Kelly-and let it slide around her neck and shoulders. When the snake was put on the committee table it rustled among papers, allowed Mrs. Owen to pet it. Dr. Kelly explained that king snakes, indigenous to the proposed park, are harmless, destroy rattlesnakes-also indigenous to the area. Confessed Mrs. Owen: she had never handled a snake before...
...Because of the ten-year increasing flood of anti-Prohibition propaganda which has, during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started...
...before the Committee and again in his maiden Senate speech. "I think McNinch is a man mightily and seriously disturbed in his political relations," he admitted, "but nevertheless he is pure and honest." Strangely allied with Senator Morrison was his longtime foe, Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, a Hoover Democrat. Almost identical to the McNinch case among the Democrats was last week's repercussion among the Republicans. The Senate Campaigns Fund Committee had discovered that Executive Director Robert Hendry Lucas of the Republican National Committee had sent propaganda into Nebraska in October advocating the defeat of Republican Senator George William...
Much uneasiness was caused last week by the continued decline in the bond market. Second-grade bonds have dropped in alarming fashion; the best bonds have slumped at an angle almost unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash...
...that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they are things so trivial by the ordinary standards . . . that even I cannot explain why they can still be sometimes almost excruciating to recall; hard, wounding things I have said to people . . . the way I once hit at and did not kill a rat and had to go on killing it, and other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal...