Word: dew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young women Friends of Spanish Democracy. Gasped confused Signer Tom Connally of Texas: "Merely as an act of greeting. ... I am opposed to Fascism because of its iron intolerance. ... I am also, of course, bitterly opposed to Communism." Neatest explanation was that of West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt: "I would congratulate any government capable of holding parliament in time of warfare...
When Senator Guffey had heard Senator Burke call his radio speech "cheap stuff, tawdry stuff;" when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...
When John L. Lewis urged a minimum 40? wage and a five-day, 35-hour week, West Virginia's boyish Senator Rush Dew Holt (he turned 32 this week) asked: "If the Federal Government proceeds from this bill to legislation to regulate all wages and hours, what will happen to industrial democracy?" Grabbing the cigar from his mouth, Boss Lewis exploded, "Is the Senator trying to be humorous...
...accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
...Board of Overseers; George Rublee '90 of Washington, D. C., a lawyer and formerly member of the Federal Trade Commission and legal adviser to the American Embassy in Mexico, to the American delegation to the London Naval Conference, and to the government of Colombia; Right Reverend James DeW. Perry '92 of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...