Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey's eyes the Hoffman-Fort battle eclipsed the Landon-Borah contest. While Fortians were urged to "vote the alphabet" (C for Conklin, D for Duffield, E for Edge, F for Fort), Governor Hoffman's machine concentrated on urging the faithful to vote not for four Landon delegates-at-large but for Hoffman only, thereby saving the Governor's face with "bullet votes." Fort men charged that in mustering Republican votes, the Governor was supported by Jersey City's Democratic Mayor Frank Hague. Indeed, in Boss Hague's Hudson County Hoffman polled four votes...
...after the Revolution he saw his didactic chance, made it his patriotic duty. He launched his first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even...
...fascinated by the arrival of a long-haired, silky-mustached Parsee named Shri Sadgaru Meher Baba (TIME, May 2, 1932). Called the "God Man," the "Messiah," the "Perfect Master," Meher Baba never speaks. The God Man claims to have been strictly silent since 1925, carries a little alphabet board on which he deftly spells his mute revelations (see cut, p. 37), among which is the declaration that he is in an "infinite state." He became that way, he says, after kissing an ancient holy woman named Hazrat Babajan, remaining in a coma for nine months...
...spent unwisely. Funds extorted from the taxpayer should not be sunk in the briny waters of Passamaquoddy and withheld from the Justice Department's Bureau of Information at the same time. We are living in an administration of unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies. The alphabet has been twisted beyond recognition and 'Brain Trusters' have played havoc with age old American institutions, but the one shining light of usefulness and of service to the public is the "G" men under the leadership of Mr. Hoover. The American public owes it to itself to see that nothing is allowed...
...spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that the essential contributions of modern science, the principal values...