Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State's 15th district, an area the size of New York State stretching along the Rio Grande from above Eagle Pass to Brownsville on the Gulf...
Solid Texas. What sent the Congressman of the 15th district up to the Speakership were last week's elective doings in the 14th district, running from above San Antonio to the Gulf at Corpus Christi. Until his death last month Republican Congressman Harry McLeary Wurzbach had, sheerly by personal popularity, carried the 14th around in his pocket for eleven years (TIME, Nov. 16). To fill his vacancy a special election was called. Democratic leaders raged in despair when six of their party rushed into the contest against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware...
...tariff is the Gulf Stream of politics. It flows through both parties, and each is trying to catch the other in bathing and steal his clothes...
...Poland and the creation of Latvia, Riga shriveled. Poles built a port of their own at Gdynia. Foreign steamers that used to call at Riga passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga on their atlases, finding it north of Edinburgh's latitude, refused to believe...
...weeks ago a possible big revision in the railroad map was forecast when Great Western bought a 2OC/C interest in Kansas City Southern, thereby forming the nucleus of what could be welded into a new Chicago-Gulf route (TIME. Oct. 26). Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon...