Word: dill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pooh-poohed Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott: "I have no fear for the real patriotism of Northwestern students. Of course, in peace times they do a lot of altruistic talking, but if a war should come we would find them just as loyal as they were in the last conflict...
...more than 26 sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung to Repeal if not to beer include Arkansas' Robinson, Mississippi's Harrison, Ohio's Fess, Georgia's George, Arizona's Ashurst, Washington's Dill, Michigan's Vandenberg, Tennessee's McKellar. Republican Floor Leader Watson last week declared he was for 2.75% beer because "it doesn't mean anything?it's only slop...
...theories and conceptions which will dominate the country for four years. In Congress. Democrat battles Democrat as to what is good party doctrine. The Democratic Press of William Randolph Hearst is rarely in tune with that of Adolph, Ochs, Baruch, Young, Baker & Co. hold ideas opposite from those of Dill, Long, Wheeler, McAdoo & Co.?yet all are Democrats. An Irish Catholic in Boston, a Russian Jew in Chicago and a white Protestant in Atlanta think on different tangents?yet all are Democrats...
...Virginia drive. From the American Legion Convention at Portland frock-coated Josephus Daniels orated his way eastward by easy stages. In last week's Satevepost the one-time Secretary of the Navy wrote glowingly of his wartime subordinate, "Franklin Roosevelt As I Know Him." Waashing-ton's chubby Senator Dill was all set to carry the Roosevelt power issue up & down the Pacific coast. As soon as he finished junketing through Indian reservations, Montana's vociferous Senator Wheeler would, as headquarters expressed it, "be available for a speaking tour." At McCook, Neb. sad-eyed Senator Norris, insurgent Republican, dabbed paint...
Governor Roosevelt got his first red-hot reception at Seattle. From 75,000 throats roared forth a boisterous welcome as he rode through the streets with Mayor John Dore, nominal Republican, who declared: "President Hoover is a menace." Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill quickly squeezed himself close to the man whose nomination at Chicago he had helped engineer. Visiting a hospital for crippled children, lame Governor Roosevelt sympathized: "It's a little difficult for me to stand on my feet...