Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
Last week out stepped a new bidder for mass leadership. He is 54, florid, fleshy and fresh. He comes from the western end of North Carolina. His name is Robert Rice Reynolds. Called "Our Bob" by the homespun folks who vote for him, he is half-baked, has been in the U. S. Senate since 1932. This session two inspirations have made him more vocal than usual...
...success of Representative Martin Dies at rabble-rousing with his committee on Un-Americanism. Bob Reynolds admires Opportunist Dies. He has seized upon his issue of "isms" in the U. S. and, while liking Naziism better than Communism, he last week announced a new U. S. mass movement based on opposition to all foreign "isms...
...Bob" is no relation to the tobacco Reynoldses. He comes from the vote-gettin' Reynoldses. Back home in Buncombe County his daddy was a court clerk. Uncle Henry was chief of police, Uncle Dan sheriff, Uncle Gus tax collector. When young Bob first ran for local office 28 years ago, he was smart enough to tell the voters that he didn't give a hoot for them, that he was out for a job and the money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls...
Large on a 1930 National Geographic Map of Antarctica bulked the Charles Bob Mts., Commander Byrd's way of thanking one of the backers of his first South Pole expedition. For a time Charles Victor Bob bulked equally large on the Manhattan scene...