Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nomination by Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio of Senator Borah as chairman of the prospective joint committee of Congress to study Prohibition enforcement machinery. "His discussion shows he is familiar with every aspect of the problem. He could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about...
...Familiar is the story of the small merchant who, unable to meet his notes, said to his banker: "Were you ever in the pants business?" The banker replied that he certainly never was. "Well," said the small merchant, shrugging his shoulders...
Latin Power. Cienfugeos, Guantanamo, Santa Marta, Manzanillo, Sancti-Spiritus, Curityba, Cordoba-strange and Spanish are these names of Latin-American cities. But familiar and North American is their electric light and power machinery, built by U. S. capital, U. S. engineering. They are among the 643 Mexican, Central American and South American communities (population more than 8.000.000) served by subsidiaries of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., which is in turn a subsidiary of Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share...
...only a white man but a man even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...
...wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth?indisputably the most adored and potent man in India...