Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys love to play the Princeton boys," declared head coach Dick Harlow after Saturday's game, and well they might love these Bengal-mauling clashes which for three years now have been the turning points in Harvard's season. For, in the flush of Saturday's 26-7 triumph, the Varsity team acquired the self-confidence and poise, denied by four gruelling defeats, which should carry them up to and through Yale for a 4-4 record for the campaign...
Being the front man for a U. S. feudal barony is a job that gives Dick Kleberg plenty of work. For despite certain indications of independence, King is very much a part of the U. S. Its stake in politics may be judged by the fact that a if decline in beef prices shaves $200,000 from the King profits that year, that taxes have more than once exceeded the King payroll...
Until 1931 Dick Kleberg handled his job from his office in Corpus Christi, with occasional visits to the legislature. But in that year the 14th District's Republican Congressman died and Dick Kleberg, a Democrat, decided to take the job. Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...
...Congress: Dick Kleberg is three distinct things. He is a Personality-a leathery, lean-hipped, aloof, still faintly fabulous character who since he first drove up to the Wardman Park Hotel in one of the King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his family, playing golf (in the low 70s), and avoiding newspapermen. He is a conscientious worker for himself and other farmers, who listens patiently to Congressional oratory, does his bit against oleomargarine and other bug bears of the range, never misses a meeting of his sole committee, Agriculture. Finally...
...Although Dick Kleberg was nominated for the Roosevelt Purge list this year he did not make it, partly because in the 14th District it would be hard to purge a King-Kleberg, partly be cause in Washington Rancher Kleberg has not sought to assert his birthright of leadership. Consensus: a conscientious, well-intentioned Congressman less unusual and less frigid than he looks, more independent than some of his colleagues because he is less ambitious and his interests are more special...