Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ashurst has been senior Senator from Arizona since its Statehood. He likes to hear himself called "the silver-tongued sunbeam of Painted Desert." His favorite anecdote surrounds his biggest moment: the day in 1912 when a Senate expecting to see an Arizona Senator sworn in wearing cowboy chaps, high-heeled...
But no bibble-babbler is Ashurst. His tongue can burn as well as bless. When the late Huey P. Long had the Senate buffaloed, hog-tied and helpless with his parliamentary agility, when few Senators even dared to cross him, Ashurst took the floor one day (July 15, 1935) to...
Police found the blue sedan, a stolen one, and a fired gun, but not the killer. They were mystified until Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey's office down in Manhattan called up to ask a bodyguard for Philip Orlovsky. That made Democratic District Attorney Sam Foley of The Bronx...
"S Plan." Last week's bombings coincided with Parliamentary consideration of a bill to free the police from ordinary legal restraint when tracking down Irish terrorists. Although 66 I.R.A. volunteers have been sentenced to prison, the police have had difficulty making a legal case against men they suspect of...
Notwithstanding his reticence, however, there was quite a celebration for Signor Mussolini. He came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti...