Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford...
...society's inner circle. But many a Washingtonian, including members of the Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired the manuscript of Longfellow's paean to honest poverty, "The Village Blacksmith...
...Oklahoma's biggest political figures, Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, is, however, no friend of Elmer Thomas...
...Press about most of its doings, is inclined to silence and anonymity when it grapples with plant ailments that might be harmful to human consumers. For many months the Department has been trying to find out why, in a few arid regions of the Southwest, wheat, corn and alfalfa are sickly, and why cattle fed solely on this sickly fodder are puny and short-lived. The Department did not like to hear ranchmen blame "alkali disease," because during the last century alkali disease afflicted the Indians inhabiting the same areas. Last week, when it could also report progress...
...meetings "to follow the leadership of President Roosevelt." Tempered editorials appeared, like that of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, which concluded: "The Government's proposition is part cash and part gamble; Reno's proposition is all gamble." Even such a hot-head as grizzled old Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma counseled farmer?s to be patient with the Administration's farm policy, pleading: "Give the Congress and President an opportunity. If they fail, then you may talk about other methods." The Green Eagle began to look poorly when Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa, after...