Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senator Hiram Johnson, captain of the tiny army of Treaty opponents in the Senate, to delay matters to such a point that the London agreement would have to go over until next winter's session of Congress. Last week the Johnson brigade of twelve did not grow in size but it grew in obstructive influence...
...that for the space of one year he had been Bethlehem's president. Now, of course, he is internationally famed as Bethlehem's genial, talkative chairman. What Mr. Grace, who is now Bethlehem's president, would not tell, was the size of his, Mr. Grace's, salary. In Youngstown, only the day before, a new petition had charged that this salary exceeded $1,000,000 annually, "for which," the petition added, "he renders no adequate service or consideration." Never before had such things been said of the man whom Colyumist Arthur Brisbane immediately characterized...
...needs 33 (one more than one-third of the 96 Senators). To gain time to muster new recruits, "Captain" Johnson demanded, apparently without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than they were at the Senate's general apathy. Up to last week the President and Statesman Stimson had simply failed to get the Senate excited about the benefits of the treaty. Today the Hoover forces easily command a winning majority. Delay of six months might...
...Quality Group, comprised of Century, Harper's, Scribner's, World's Work, Review of Reviews, Atlantic Monthly endeavored to induce advertisers to purchase space in the entire group. It disintegrated in 1928, partly because of disagreements over page-size; partly because the "strong" members wearied of carrying the "weak...
...mosquito, like most insects, is far stronger, relative to size, than any mammal. Its jaws have been called "more powerful than an elephant's . . . [with ] fang structure more terrible than the tiger's." After two weeks of data gathering the exposed parts of Dr. Rudolfs' body will be raw from hundreds of bites...