Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escorted by the House's testy Doorkeeper Joseph J. Sinnott. As Speaker Bankhead cracked his gavel summoning the House to rise for each new detachment of guests, Doorkeeper Sinnott hurried up & down the aisle, waved in the Diplomatic Corps and the Cabinet. Next came President Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide and last of all Mrs. Byrns, the late Speaker's two brothers and his only son, Joe Jr., 32. Behind a long black veil, plump Mrs. Byrns wept softly. Across the aisle from her in his front-row seat, President Roosevelt kept his head bowed...
...because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan boy with a greying fox in his bosom. When an accident ruined his right arm, Katie left him. Meantime Beverly's wrong husband had died, so at last their tragicomedy of errors came to a rhymed conclusion...
...sister, made him anxious to get back to his family and the potent family firm of Lehman Brothers. Whatever the reason. Democrats made no attempt to pooh-pooh their loss. From 1929 to 1933 as Lieutenant Governor, Herbert Lehman was Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's "good right arm," performing the duties of Governor for long periods while Mr. Roosevelt was out of the State. Since 1933 he has been President Roosevelt's alter ego in New York, ramming through the State Legislature a mass of crime legislation, over 100 labor bills, a State NRA, higher taxes. Quiet...
...political success when, as a Wet, he waged a timely campaign against wealthy Senator Cameron Morrison. Bob Reynolds had stumped the State in an old Ford for six months, staged a surprising act in many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like...
...forms of autocracy, oligarchy and Fascism. ... I believe that the will of the French people is closely related to the will of the American people." Two days later M. Blum reviewed a Paris march-past of Communists and Socialists, joined the marchers in singing the Internationale, waving his arm to keep time...