Word: bim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Republican National Committee met in Washington last week, it was like a family gathering which has just heard that old Uncle Bim didn't die broke after all. The election, the new seats in Congress, the squad of new Republican Governors, the startling proof that the New Deal is not immortal, made all the ladies & gentlemen feel downright festive. And then into their midst rushed a chunky, rufous young man from New York and almost spoiled...
...Kenneth Simpson, the one Republican leader who, all the time that Uncle Bim was really believed to be washed up, was actually making headway in Manhattan. To him was due large credit for the final smashing to Tammany last year with the Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District...
Genial about his resemblance to "Andy Gump" is famed Governor Eugene Robert Black of Atlanta's Federal Reserve Bank (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week he suddenly began to act like comic strip Andy's fabulously rich "Uncle Bim" who airily bandies millions of dollars in "real money." Governor Black had been called on to stop runs against two prominent Havana banks. Gumpfully he ordered $25,000,000 in cash loaded into several airplanes, flew in one of them to Havana where bank running stopped abruptly...
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