Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time Governor Lehman had contemplated speaking his mind about the Court. What prompted him to do so last week was anyone's guess. Senator Wagner was not publicly committed on the Court, but Administration forces counted on the aid of his vote. As good a guess as any was that Senator Wagner, wishing to be relieved of his obligation to the Administration, had quietly prompted the letter to provide himself with an excuse for voting against the bill. An equally good guess was that Herbert Lehman, whose brother Irving sits on New York's highest bench...
...middle of the field. In the new situation he called for another plunge through the centre of the line, made a direct demand that the Court Bill be passed (see p. 10). Political observers scratched their heads, wondered what was passing through the quarterback's brilliant mind...
...some who demanded the repayment of loans they claimed to have made him. One, a wealthy notable, was particularly merciless. As we had no money, we sent him some of our valuable treasures, but he would accept nothing but cash. This and other pathetic incidents bred in my susceptible mind a hatred of injustice. I was a gloomy youth throughout my student days, with an inclination to read extremist literature from Western Europe...
...masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There...
...sweltering Manhattan last week the feet of one Daniel Long, 66 and unwell, stumbled under him. As the dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8° F., highest in that vast old hospital's records...