Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Mrs. Sarah Oliver Hulswit, head of an anti-New Deal crusade called the Women's Rebellion, asked (unsuccessfully) Attorney General David T. Wilentz* of New Jersey to enforce against WPA workers an old New Jersey statute (ten other States have similar laws) denying to paupers the right to vote, President Roosevelt last week grew highly sarcastic in press conference. The "ladies' proposal," he snorted, was about as democratic as it would be to limit voters to male holders of B.A. degrees. While he was on the subject he went on also to denounce poll taxes...
Bitterly protesting its injustice, President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance (WPAsters' union) last week heeded the "warning" of Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures committee, dropped plans to collect a $50,000 political campaign fund from WPA workers. But, said Mr. Lasser, voluntary contributions from friends of the Alliance would be accepted and, with its dues income, put to the Alliance's political ends. He wrote to Senator Sheppard...
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse...
Sailors traditionally raise hell in port, and David Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back...
Maryland Primaries (Mon. 12 midnight, MBS). Returns and talks by Democratic Senatorial nomination-seekers Millard E. Tydings, David J. Lewis...