Word: crispness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting on rules, practices and precedents. On the side he studied law, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1895. In 1896 his father died and he, aged 26, was elected to serve out his father's unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge...
...Russell Jr.. son of the State's prolific, tobacco-chewing Chief Justice. Governor Russell appointed Major John Sanford Cohen, publisher of the Atlanta Journal, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris. Governor Russell thus has the Journal's backing, while Mr. Crisp has the support of Clark Howell's Atlanta Constitution. Against him is being used the charge that, after a visit from Georgia Power Co.'s Preston Stanley Arkwright, he consented to a new provision in the revenue bill putting the electricity tax on consumers instead of producers...
...martial law (he did not have to because Washington is Federal territory). President Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to call out the Army from Fort Myer in nearby Virginia. Secretary Hurley passed the command along to handsome, well-tailored General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, in the following crisp dispatch...
This was hedging, weasling?perhaps a wise course since it left open every avenue for muddling through. In sharp contrast was South Africa's crisp demand for "the restoration of the gold standard" throughout the Empire (South African pounds & shillings being still on the gold standard...
Suddenly, just as the Hoover program was becoming snagged and snarled, handsome Dino Grandi, Foreign Minister of Italy, stood up, spoke a few crisp words, drew thunderous applause and gallery cheers...