Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington's Lieutenant-Governor Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, onetime jazz bandmaster who campaigns for a hostess on every street car, began a book: "They laughed when I picked up the gavel...
...first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...from his great red mansion in Albany went the Governor to receive his party reward for faithful service. Up from his new Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan went Alfred E. Smith to nominate his old friend. Up from his proud new offices in Washington went Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
When returns came in Conservatives breathed with relief. After a campaign in which tousle-haired Joseph Aloysius Lyons, "the Honest Man from Tasmania," had flown over 7,000 miles in a plane branded FAITH IN AUSTRALIA, he found himself still Premier with his Cabinet intact. His United Australia Party, with the help of the Country Party, retains a shrunken but safe majority in both Houses. Enticing schemes of government inflation advocated by both the Dominion's former Laborite Premier J. H. Scullin and the irrepressible J. S. Lang of New South Wales seemed safely shelved. Langites took comfort...