Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer (1921-33), whom Senator McCarran beat in landsliding 1932 by only 1,964 votes...
Purgee-designate was the man who has represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created...
...know myself," he wrote exuberantly to his older brother, "I can't fail." Meanwhile he thought he and his brother ought to be more respectful to their mother, should quit snubbing their kid brother Brooks ("we ought to try our hardest to tolerate the child'') and that his own allowance should be increased...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...
...since written nine (to Wife Kathleen's 60), dealing with such topical problems as education (Salt), marriage (Brass), women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed). They have brought him neither the literary reputation of his brother nor the big profits of his wife. But they have been moderately good, moderately successful, have kept him from being known as simply "Kathleen Norris' husband." Bricks Without Straw takes the topical theme of Radical Youth. Son of a strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student...