Word: congress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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January's session of the 76th Congress will be that opportunity. But by January Mr. Hull may not care. Soon the massive Argentine trade agreement will be concluded; hard on its heels, one with Chile; a third with Uruguay. With these 25 in Mr. Hull's pocket-agreements with countries representing about 80% of U. S. foreign trade-the Congress will be ceremoniously locking the barn door after the horse has been led to water...
...people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
...least of all himself, need have been surprised that Maury was in trouble. Politics is a tough business, and Bexar County is no Sunday school. When Maury Maverick got licked for re-election to Congress, he started to come back by getting himself elected Mayor of San Antonio. In his campaign he promised a general clean-up of the city. When he was elected, he started to make good his promise. Result: obvious to any freshman in political chemistry...
...political chemist, but no freshman, was District Attorney John R. Shook, boyhood friend of Maury, now one of the leaders of the opposition which kept Maury out of Congress in 1938, tried to keep him out of the Mayor's office. In his political laboratory, Mr. Shook got to work. He uncovered one Maxwell Burkett, San Antonio lawyer who had been an attorney for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Mr. Burkett, it was alleged in court later, had been prevented, as part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook...
...clanking, buzzing, gurgling machines, bottles of queer-looking powders, crystals and liquids-the Exposition of Chemical Industries. ... In Manhattan's far-from-sombre Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, under soft lights, on soft rugs, with lyrical commentary, comely models in dazzling clothes: a special show of synthetic fabrics for the Congress of Industry. . . . The scenes were dissimilar but the purposes were the same: to extol the marvels of modern chemistry...