Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long (518 pages), meaty biography. Toombs's story was simpler and more heroic; Watson's was incredibly confused. For 30 years he was a hero to hard pressed Georgia dirt farmers; The Thomas E. Watson Song is still sung in the Georgia back country. Debs admired Watson, Bryan feared...
...Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence, the shy and inconspicuous Texan won the opportunity to put his reforms into practice. But he dealt mainly with appointments and policies; he really chose Wilson's cabinet, making his friend Bryan Secretary of State, and he appointed many ambassadors. A Snow White among wolves, he worked for "peace without victory" in Europe and for the "freedom of the seas" principle. His ego was satiated as the power behind the throne; greater power no other private citizen ever wielded as a sincere...
...Times Building- imprisoned; 4) Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, for murder (1924) of 13-year-old Bobby Franks-life imprisonment rather than gallows on lunacy plea; 5) John Scopes, violation (1925) of Tennessee's anti-evolution statute-fined $100, after Darrow had quizzed William Jennings Bryan on the Bible's veracity (Bryan died at the conclusion of the trial); 6) Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, honor-murderer (1932) in Honolulu of Joseph Kahahawai Jr.-found guilty of manslaughter...
...office of Collector of Customs for the Port of Los Angeles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the recommendation of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, appointed a well-to-do 48-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who bears one of the most famed names in U. S. political history: William Jennings Bryan...
...hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad land grants that his legislative activities were notorious even in those wide-open times. Then he reversed himself and began attacking the concentration of wealth, led the radical Farmers' Alliance, wrote best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for many offices, and died...