Word: chewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson, great-grandson of farmers (George III granted his great-grandfather the family's ancestral acres near Lynchburg), "Cotton Ed" Smith is South Carolina old-style-bulky, voluble, a tobacco-chewer, whittler, turkey hunter, storyteller. Candidate Johnston calls him "the sleeping Senator" but he can point to a long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right...
...Cigar-Chewer Sirs...
...been my thought that executions usually carried an air of solemnity and the cigar-chewer does not seem to add dignity and sobriety to the occasion. However, maybe I'm wrong...
Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest...
Texas' Governor James V. Allred promptly accepted the challenge in Dallas but delegated the spitting to expert Expectorator Leonard Pack, chief of the Centennial Police. No chewer himself, the Texas Governor refused to compete because: "They say it takes time to achieve accuracy and poise...