Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of Washington's Senator Homer Truett Bone is as follows...
...undersigned constituents of Senator Homer T. Bone will appreciate your giving his record in the Senate, together with an appraisal of his standing...
Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
...Bone philosophy was formed by a lifetime of fighting the interests, only lately has begun to pay political dividends. His father was a disabled Civil War veteran who married his mother after her first husband had been killed at Gettysburg...
...Bone fell down an elevator shaft and almost broke his neck, which remained stiff and now gives him a look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple...