Word: regularity
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...eccentric, no great legislator. An oldtime politician whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated him to succeed himself on an independent ticket in the November elections...
When passengers are carried, royal & imperial or otherwise, a surcharge for each equal to the regular First Class fare for the distance covered is paid...
...They can almost be ignored in considering two quiet election facts: 1) that there were recorded a series of small losses to all the centre parties of Prime Minister Heinrich Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" (TIME, April 7) which is thus left stranded, discredited; 2) the emergence of the regular Socialist party (after losing ten seats) as still Germany's strongest...
...officially by international convention the French A has gradually obtained all over the world. Last fortnight Dr. Carl Maria Haselbrunner, editor of the Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because one man in an orchestra . . . sets the A higher or lower to suit his own whim. Why, if any two orchestras, and the best ones at that, were suddenly brought together, they'd be out of tune! It's a ridiculous musical situation. ... It actually...
Oration over, the dummies were lynched, placed in caskets, buried with regular rites, while the 1,000 businessmen cheered this notable method of doing away with depression...