Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the convention at hand. Candidate Roosevelt suddenly wanted to ditch Mr. Shouse as permanent chairman. The Governor's friends declared that Mr. Shouse had won support at the April meeting by trickery and misrepresentation, that he was hostile to the Roosevelt candidacy, had covertly worked against it and that, anyway, a "commendation," unlike a "recommendation," was not binding...
Eleven of the twelve Governors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks met extraordinarily in Washington last week to un-kink another bad knot in the credit rope with which they are trying to pull the country out of its economic ditch. From Boston New York and Philadelphia, from Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas, from Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis, from Minneapolis and San Francisco, they answered the call for consultation from Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, overlord of the nations credit and currency. Only George Henry Hamilton Governor of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, failed to appear...
Under the circumstances, it is a misfortune to find the Boston "Traveller" in discussing the situation editorially, making self-complacent remarks about the willingness of peace-loving nations, (by which the United States is of course meant,) to "fight to the last ditch" against warring nations which disturb our interests and our efforts for peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases...
Luther's bullet-riddled body is in the ditch...
...Missouri Democrats meeting in St. Louis pledged their 36 convention votes to their "favorite son," James A. Reed, but decided against taking a "last ditch" stand...