Word: budd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...
...Donald Budd Armstrong, Jr. '37, of Searborough, New York, Perry James Culver '37, of Exeter, New Hampshire, John Howard Eric '37, of Stamford, Connecticut, and William Esmond Rowley '37, of Newton Centre, are Sophomore candidates for election to the Lowell House Committee, it was announced yesterday by Wilton S. Burton '36, secretary of the committee. Additional candidates for the election, which will be held on Wednesday, December 12, may be named by the presentation of a 25-signature petition to Burton before Sunday night...
Back interest alone amounts to $25,000,000. Numerous attempts have been made to reorganize the decrepit carrier, the last plan calling for RFC financing. But Jesse Jones had a "thought," which he borrowed from President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
...many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor-but seldom "Madam Queen...