Word: despard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup was as follows: forwards, Platt (Y), Davis (Y), Murtha (Y), Towle (Y), Bob Knapp (H, Capt.), Pete Knapp (B), McGinn (H); scrum half, Fayette (H); fly half, Channing (B); wing 3/4, Frank (Y), Loomis (Y); center 3/4, Simpson* (H), Despard (Y, Capt.); full back, Whitehead (L), Scoring: tries, first half-Fayette, Frank, Channing; second half--Williams, Bob Knapp. Total...
...funniest parts of The Politician are consequently the quotations from the politicians themselves: A speech on the protective tariff, delivered by onetime (1925-31) Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, in which the tariff is pictured as touching hillsides, causing the waters of commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement...
West Virginia. For the seat which Republican Senator Guy Despard Goff no longer wants, James Elwood Jones, wealthy Switchback coal operator, was nominated by Republican voters over four rivals. He will be furnished lively opposition in the November election by Democratic Senatorial Nominee Matthew Mansfield Neely, onetime (1923-1929) Senator...
...Senate prepared to reconvene, Republican members were poised for a hard game of puss-in-corner. The corner: a Finance Committee seat vacated by Walter Evans Edge, now Ambassador to France. Pusses: young Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, old Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia...