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...line Republican machine politician, Governor James's first act after he took oath was to slap down a document on the inaugural stand, announce: "I herewith submit my resignation as a judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans' Return | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...remained on the high seas. With the Ambassador's landing this week, the President may make up his mind: 1) to construe the pogrom as a discrimination against U. S. trade and flex the tariff on German goods; 2) to neglect to send Ambassador Wilson back, a diplomatic slap; 3) to ask Congress temporarily to increase the immigration quota for German refugees. Germany's and Austria's combined quota of emigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Singular Attitude | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...week's end Station WMCA explained its unprecedented slap at a sponsor, said station officials had found errors of fact in a script submitted to them three days in advance, had told Father Coughlin where he could find documents to disprove his statements, were assured that the script would be corrected before delivery. When it was not. Station WMCA made the announcement instead of cutting Father Coughlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slap | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Whether the sun is out or not in Cambridge makes little difference in the quantity of nine-o'clock or hour exams. When mud puddles swoosh in the streets and everybody is nasty and wet, Vag sometimes fails to preserve his charming manner; but that's no reason to slap five courses onto the University's enormous curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

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