Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator who has modeled his talents on those of William Jennings Bryan, when Josh Lee gets to the Senate where there is no limit on debate, Washington can expect a feast of eloquence...
Minnesota. When Minnesota's blind, blatant Senator Thomas D. Schall died last December, Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson appointed his quiet, abstemious, hard-working banking commissioner, Elmer A. Benson, to serve the unexpired term, be thus groomed to succeed as Governor. When Governor Olson died last summer, the blow to President Roosevelt's chances of carrying Minnesota caused him to persuade the State's Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor to withdraw in favor of the Farmer-Labor candidates. Old-line Democrats grumbled. Republicans shouted that the President had "sold his Party down the river...
...knew how natives envied the rich outlanders who have fenced off their best shooting grounds as private preserves, Agent Steele ignored the letters as long as he could. Then one warm morning last December he set out on a "routine patrol" along the Great Choptank, came to a blind which contained Walter P. Chrysler, his estate superintendent, William Pritchett, and ten dead ducks. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chrysler," said Agent Steele when he had finished his examination, "but this is against...
Died. Mrs. Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy, 70, lifelong teacher & companion of blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller; of heart disease; in Forest Hills...
...President Batten entered the firm as an office boy at 15, worked up through the production and copy departments to a vice-presidency in 1929. He lives in a new $60,000 home in suburban Rosemont, takes direct part in the management of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind...