Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour on which to accept the President's invitation to the White House, adding that he would like to bring to the meeting one personal adviser. That was all right with the President who said he would have Secretary of the Treasury Mills at his elbow. "Good-by, Mr. President." "Good-by, Governor." Governor Roosevelt's adviser is Raymond Moley, 46-year-old professor of public law at Columbia University. An expert on criminal procedure rather than international economics, Professor Moley is a stocky, thin-haired pedagog who began his career as an Ohio schoolteacher. As Governor...
...easing himself down the steps of the old Hyde Park town hall. He had just voted for himself for 32nd President of the U. S. With him was a cortege of newspapermen, his wife and his son Elliott. Mrs. Higgins is a neighbor of the Squire of Krum Elbow. Everyone laughed at his question which was thoroughly facetious. Mrs. Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds in the campaign and I'm proud of my figure. Look here. There's nothing extra in there," he had said to the clerk in the town hall...
...Krum Elbow" & Mortgages...
...Western campaign trip Governor Roosevelt frequently introduced himself to rural audiences as a Hudson River Valley "farmer." His reference was to the agricultural operations carried on at "Krum Elbow," his mothers 1,000-acre estate at Hyde Park, N. Y. Roiled by such talk, Henry Field, Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, last month blurted out: "At Krum Elbow there is no hog lot but there are a polo ground and tennis court. What appears to be a silo is an elevated water tower for care of the lawn and the sunken garden. What looks like a henhouse is really...
Last week the Democratic National Committee rushed to the defense of ''Krum Elbow" as a real farm. Westmoreland Davis, onetime Governor of Virginia, now publisher of Southern Farm Magazine and proprietor of a 2.400-acre estate near Leesburg, had just returned from Hyde Park. Through the National Committee he declared: "On my visit I found a herd of Guernsey cattle, dairy and horse barns, poultry houses, a silo filled with corn ensilage, farm horses, hogs and over 600 laying hens. The fields were in corn, alfalfa and pasture. There's no pseudo silo and sunken garden. These...