Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In his big suite at the Senate Office Building he answered an average of 200 letters per day and began picking out the things he would take back to Topeka with him after March 4. The 6-ft. chair engraved "The Chief" would certainly go. So would the 2-ft...
Public affairs gave way to political affairs at the White House last week as President Hoover pressed to a climax his campaign for reelection. For long hours he withdrew from the bustle of his regular office for the quiet of the Lincoln Study where he worked over his Indianapolis and...
"I hate rats," hisses James Lorenz Nicholes, with a sinister smile upon his small, ratlike features. "I would rather kill a rat than an elephant-any day." Had they been wise, 8,000,000 rats would have fled Chicago last month, for James Lorenz Nicholes was there.
McNutt v. Springer. At Logansport, Ind. Raymond S. Springer, campaigning as Republican nominee for Governor against Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, mounted a circus elephant, joined a G. O. Parade. Going up an incline the beast stumbled to its knees. Nominee Springer...
Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle, N. Y.