Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's Negro section, heartily cheered elsewhere. That evening the Indianapolis Coliseum, was jammed to its 14,000-seat capacity. When the Nominee rose to speak he got the warmest ovation of his campaign. It was a full seven minutes before the wildly yelling crowd would let him begin his long-awaited pronouncement on foreign relations. Twenty-nine times in the course of the 24-minute speech, on which he and his advisers had been working all summer, his audience broke in with applause or cheers...
Last September Republican managers, alarmed at an August slump in his popularity, persuaded Nominee Landon to begin a "fighting campaign." Bit by bit his temper rose; his attacks grew stern, next vigorous, next angry. As the campaign entered its final week, they reached full fury. Not Frank Knox, not John Hamilton had ever shouted a blacker, more fearful prophecy of the doom in store for the U. S. if Alf Landon should fail of election than did Alf Landon himself when, at Baltimore this week, he cried...
...Deal campaigners have said a great deal in general about the blessings of the Government's Old-Age Pension Law, practically nothing in particular about the tax feature of that act. Beginning Jan. 1 a tax of 1% per year will be levied on the pay of every U. S. wage earner, great & small.* An equal amount will also be collected by the Treasury from the employer. Example: A factory superintendent 40 years old makes $3,000 per year; his annual tax to begin with will be $30 (1% of $3,000); the factory management must match...
Tall, redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Davie, an international socialite, was a delegate to the Republican convention last June. She went home to organize "Landon Volunteers in Eastern Seaboard States," begin contributing a daily recruiting column to the Herald Tribune. Columnist Davie's original lead...
...Room 6, and thither he god to hear Professor Langer on "Italy and the Revolution of 1820." He never misses a chance to hear the Great Young Man of the Department of History. Down in front, pencil in hand, sits the Vagabond as Mr. Langer mounts the platform to begin his lecture in the grating singsong voice that that startles you at first--and then picks you up and carries you along on a flood of fact, anecdote, opinion; now amusing, now perplexing, but continually and relentlessly stimulating...