Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican Allen Treadway, who teased Townsenditcs in his district with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion...
...write. But worried publishers are quick to submit any doubtful work to the local party official. This gives the Nazis all the control they need. Book News (published in Berlin) now prints a green flimsy supplement headed "Expert Opinion." In one section are listed books to push, and in the other books to soft-pedal...
...Secretary of State Hull's ablest agents, a Boston Yankee who has been able to push the pushy Japanese around, sailed homeward from Tokyo last week. He is Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, going home for a vacation and a course in the more or less continuous seminar for Ambassadors conducted by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Pierre Matisse Gallery, critics and gallery-goers gravely inspected a number of gangling contraptions. Made up of string, wire, metal rods, colored wooden balls, sheet metal, the objects delicately bobbled, jiggled, woggled, teetered and tottered on their moorings. Some were powered by tiny electric motors, others needed a gentle push to set them going. These were "Mobiles." There were also "Stabiles"-a fantastic, animal-like limb from a tree; and the William Paley Radio Trophy of stainless steel cones surmounted by wires. These stayed perfectly still. Motionless or jiggly, they were all creations of Alexander ("Sandy") Calder, a hulking, greying...
Unveiled in Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...