Word: archly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose in the Senate on Dec. 10, 1930 Mississippi's Democratic Pat Harrison, arch-baiter of the G. 0. P., to remark: ''For the last 18 months Herbert Hoover has shown that he has not only ditched the United States but he has drained the whole world." The alliteration was later expanded but Senator Harrison is credited with giving the phrase its first political currency. He took it from a constituent's letter. The letter has been lost; the constituent remains nameless...
...Hoover method of economizing-by-committee failed to win the support of Liberal Pundit Walter Lippmann, once the President's close friend, now his keenest critic. Writing in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune last week Pundit Lippmann declared...
...social and economic structure. They have sought temporary relief from the top down rather than permanent relief from the bottom up, have failed to plan ahead in a comprehensive way." Greatly did this speech dismay that good public friend of Governor Roosevelt's, the arch-Democratic New York Times, which declared: "Why the Governor should feel it necessary to say things which, coming from another, would be called demagogic claptrap, it is hard to understand. He does not need to go out and beat the bushes for votes. If he must speak, he ought to make sure...
...police formed a solid phalanx around tall Premier Lang and the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, as they advanced to cut the ribbon that would open Sydney's "Dream of the Century." Royal Air Force planes were buzzing high above, prepared to dive under the arch at the historic moment. Massed below the bridge was a fleet of 150 motorboats. A salute of 21 guns had begun, a band had burst into "Advance, Australia Fair!" and six-foot Premier Lang was advancing with his shiny pair of scissors-when suddenly a man on a horse spurred...
Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend...