Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate amendments to specify roadwork projected in Georgia and Alabama, and to authorize payment of the highest prevailing wage in any locality for the work to be given the unemployed. Then up rose Idaho...
With the North Carolina House delegation and many a potent State officer against Appointee McNinch, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson lined up his party to fight his confirmation in a rough & tumble floor debate, unless the President withdrew the name...
...Letters who recently criticized the Nobel award to Babbitt's creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today, it represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...Dramatic Club will present "The Star," a miracle play translated by D. F. Robinson '25, tonight, tomorrow and Thursday nights in the Germanic Museum. Tonight and tomorrow two performances will be given, one at 7.15 o'clock and the other at 8.30 o'clock, while on Thursday the play will be given once, 7.15 o'clock. All those who attended a performance of "Cake," the Dramatic Club's first production of the year, will be admitted free. Others may secure tickets at the door...
...died of cirrhosis of the liver. No less authorities than the late Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes implied that Webster was overfond of women, but Fuess categorically denies it. Webster had a slow but inexhaustible mind, no reputation as a wit, no interest in the arts. He reread Robinson Crusoe every year. When he spoke extemporaneously he often groped for the right word, would not be happy till he got it. Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes...