Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...explain President Hoover's sudden precipitation of so explosive an issue at such a ticklish time, observers came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence...
...proclaimed that Alfred Emanuel Smith "procured his nomination at Houston by stealth and fraud." He had headed the State's Anti-Smith Democratic Committee, raised and spent $30,906 to turn North Carolina Republican. Last week Mr. McNinch was summoned before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to explain his politics, his qualifications...
...Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit...
...kept anything back from the public 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...
Breaking away from the fraternity's tradition of presenting revivals of Elizabethan Drama such as Jonson's "Alchemist" and Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday". "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" deals with the melodramatic plot of a dumb hero accused of murder which he cannot explain. His sister, the virtuous heroine and wife of the villain, finally reveals the fact that her husband committed the murder, and he kills himself...