Word: bulkley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
Arthur A. Ballautine '04, under-secretary of the Treasury under Hoover, and Joseph Clark Grew '02, ambassador to Japan, were also on the CRIMSON board with Hull, Roosevelt and Bulkley, he said...
Also on the paper at this time was the present Democratic Senator from Ohio, Robert J. Bulkley '02, who is now running for re-election against Robert A. Taft, a graduate of the Law School...
...Both Bulkley and Roosevelt went through the successive stages of competition on the board and became managing editor and president...
...passage of thirty-six years, Hull admits, has dimmed his memory about the two politicoes, but he recalls Roosevelt as "tall, slim and giving the general impression of a pleasing and agreeable personality." He described him as "a well-behaved young man." Bulkley was called Roy, he said...