Word: elk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was the end of George Christian's happy days. Calvin Coolidge came. Senators Walsh and Wheeler of Montana between them began to dig into Teapot Dome, into Elk Hills, into the Ohio gang's speculations through the brokerage office of Mr. Ungerleider, into its peculations from the Veterans' Bureau, the Interior Department, the Alien Property Custodian's office. The gang went its way, back to Ohio or to jail. George Christian, by now a deserving Republican, was left in Washington by the receding wave of history...
...verge of being defeated for reelection. To no avail do his constituents parade with posters proclaiming: HE KEPT US OUT OF WORK, WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, MRS. WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, WINTERGREEN WANTS MRS. WINTERGREEN. His opponent's adherents advertise: JOHN P. TWEEDLEDEE IS A MOOSE, TWEEDLEDEE IS AN ELK, TWEEDLEDEE IS A HORSE'S NECK...
...bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill the elk and rangers cull out the bison. There will be Indians as well as geysers, about which government guides lecture at intervals all day long, at Old Faithful Inn. It is best...
...dominance of women in this story of Hippolyta and her court, or in the play of Lysistrata, as unnatural to the point of ridiculousness, and so in the "Warrior's Husband" we have a ridiculous farce, bubbling with mirth and Broadway wit, but none the less, reminiscent of an Elk's pageant in a small town. For all the entertainment they give, Amazon's pictured here might do more than just swagger around and say "Oh Yeah" in chesty voices, and administer hefty slaps on hefty female backs. The farce is neither brilliantly conceived; nor delicately done, it is rough...
...Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars. He presided over the 103 ballots cast by warring Democrats in Madison Square Garden in 1924, presided again last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington's Daisy Harriman took him in hand...