Word: davey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, undefeated Texas Christian, led by amazing young Davey O'Brien, muddled Marquette with the most spectacular air maneuvers of the week. Quarterback O'Brien completed seven passes in a row that paved the way for two touchdowns before retiring to the sidelines at the end of the first quarter. Returning in the last quarter, he threw another pass that scored a third touchdown. He kicked three extra points. Score: Texas Christian 21, Marquette...
...Last month, Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board threatened to cut off Federal contributions to Ohio's 112,000 aged pensioners unless Governor Martin Luther Davey ceased playing politics with the pension rolls. The Governor dared him to. Last week after a hot political word war. Chairman Altmeyer took the dare, cut off $2,576,000 of October payments, sternly warned that Governor Davey must clean up and improve his State's social security administration before November...
Roosevelt's choice of "Davey John" Lewis to oust "Militant Millard" Tydings was testimony to the calibre of both...
...Cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley of the Baltimore Sun pictured Franklin Roosevelt as an Edgar Bergen with a whole lapful of Charlie McCarthy Senators all shouting "Yes!" and "Lil Davey" Lewis (Representative David Lewis, backed by the White House against Senator Tydings) climbing up to join them...
Ohio's Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer was defeated in the gubernatorial primary in 1934 by Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey. Davey-"the best dressed Governor Ohio ever had," a good political showman but an administrator repeatedly charged with inefficiency or worse-has long impressed Democrat Sawyer as a grievous mistake. This year he ran against Governor Davey again in the Democratic primary. Helped by Labor, which disliked the Governor's interference in strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend...