Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family of a victim of mob violence by the county whose officials are responsible, is already in the statue books, of twelve States. But filibustered rarely have to talk about bills. As Tom Connally's loyal little band?Georgia's Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This...
...Whenever the Republican Party, the Democratic Party or the New Deal Party or any other party," rumbled North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, "caters to the Negro vote, it is going to elect to office common fellows of the baser sort." But when Kenneth McKellar began scornfully quoting from the bill in an effort to establish its unconstitutionality, Senator Wagner pointed out that the passage in question was a quotation from the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yes," stammered Senator McKellar...
Dropping Things-Josiah Bailey rose in Baptist wrath to read from Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families, the New Deal's current antimonopoly handbook, a passage in which Author Lundberg maintained that those who bathe frequently experience a subconscious feeling of guilt...
...heard about the private bathroom in blue marble in Mr. Ickes' office," snorted Joe Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern...
...resemblance to the name of any person, living or dead, is to be regarded as purely coincidental. LOWELLA SALTONPUSS, of Ratcliff Part taken by Lowella Saltonstall FOUFOU SEARS, of Magnolia-by-the-Sea Aunt to Lowella. . . . . . . . . Part taken by foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant-Skinned Lady 1914 SNUFFY SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS...