Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Henry Dickinson, 75, famed oldtime newsman, once managing editor of the New York Telegram, chief of the New York Journal's field bureau during the Spanish-American War; penniless, in Manhattan. For years his onetime reporters helped support...
Lester Jesse ('"Dick") Dickinson, 62, is a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer who went to the House in 1919, became leader of that body's first, historic Farm Bloc. In 1931 Representative Dickinson moved up to the Senate, where he distinguished himself by coming out early & often against the New Deal. A loud, earnest orator who keynoted at the 1932 Republican national convention, the Senator from Iowa demands "sane, honest industrial and agricultural programs" and a return "to the ideas of our New England forefathers." Senator Dickinson does not drink, smoke, take part in sports or society...
Last week Smith Wildman Brookhart informed Iowa voters that he was prepared to move back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops...
Other men who will attend will be John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General; Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who will be at the "Banking" table; Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times Washington Office...
When the Ford Peace Ship sailed to end that orgy of destruction through a Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, the "international anarchists" (to improvise on a phrase from G. Lowes Dickinson) presented the peace pilgrimage as the great comic interlude of their four years' spectacle. Militarism had won. The Ford Expedition will serve future generations as a study in magnificent failure...