Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispered in the ear of President Coolidge the name of William De Witt Mitchell for Solicitor General to succeed James Montgomery Beck. So great and good an impression had Mr. Mitchell as the Government's chief advocate made upon the Supreme Court that its members were not backward in whispering his name again, this time into the ear of President-Elect Hoover, this time for Attorney General. Thus did Mr. Hoover "discover" Mr. Mitchell. They agreed on Prohibition and its enforcement by the Department of Justice. Mr. Mitchell's appointment as Attorney General followed. He listed himself...
...yacht, along with Prince and Princess Olaf of Norway, and she gave a command performance for Viscount Lascelles. In the U. S. she has been practicing a new whirl the Alex Paulsen-which is a turn and a half in the air, the skater landing on one skate going backward. She skates a little every and between times dances, dines, goes the theatre...
...committee, Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, and the head of the manufacturers' tariff lobby, Pennsylvania's Joseph ("Old Joe") Grundy, now a Senator himself by retaliatory appointment of Governor Fisher. In reply to Senator Caraway's sharp jabs and insinuations, Archlobbyist Grundy dropped a remark about "backward commonwealths," implying that Arch-Democrat Caraway came from one. Arch-Republicans were delighted and their most resonant organ, the New York Herald Tribune, printed editorials applauding Mr. Grundy for standing up to "arrogant," "pestiferous," "bumptious," "menacing" Senator Caraway and his "senile gabbling," his "gutter psychology...