Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
...Bone won his first election, to the State Legislature, as a Farmer-Laborite. In 1928 he ran for the Republican nomination for Congress, losing, he says, because on election day the power mysteriously failed on Tacoma's privately owned streetcar line, keeping humble voters at home. In 1932 he beat conservative Lawyer Stephen F. Chadwick, present National Commander of the American Legion, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination...
...Senate Bone and his junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...
...forceful, vitriolic speaker when he is aroused, Homer Bone is as unrelenting as ever toward the men he calls the big-dough boys." Besides Franklin Roosevelt, his enthusiasms are his son "Home," 16, locomotives, and oysters, which he sometimes eats for breakfast...
Once Homer Bone brought a case of Alaskan salmon to the press gallery at the Capitol, invited the newsmen there to help themselves. They tried to, but could not remove the tightly bound wire around the case, whereupon Homer Bone made a sardonic and highly characteristic remark. Said he: "Do you mean that with all the knockers around here you fellows haven't got a hammer...