Word: fess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficiency has filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides, has made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing standard household equipment"?and then proceeded to compare them caustically with existing economic conditions. He accused the Administration of giving "human misery the absent treatment," ridiculed Republican Chairman Fess's plan to "sell Hoover to the country" as smacking "too much of a bankruptcy sale...
...swarmed into Washington's central post office to buy likenesses of the first U. S. President. By nightfall over 40,000 philatelists from far and near had secured more than a million stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. First in line were Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and Representative Sol Bloom of New York, members of the Washington Bicentennial Commission, which plans elaborate celebrations throughout 1932. After they were served, 25 clerks were kept busy distributing the new series of twelve Washington stamps, cancelling them so that collectors might have the valuable date of issue...
...have had a suggestion offered some time ago that might be of value to Senator Fess in his search for funds with which to build his home (TIME, Sept...
Suggestion for Senator Fess...
...exception. But most of the addresses were pitched on a defensive note. Plainly the party leaders felt as depressed as the Depression itself. Privately they grumbled about the difficulty of "putting Hoover over" with the voters. Old Guardsmen champed their cigars in sullen silence as Chairman Simeon Davison Fess, looking old and worried, "keynoted" thus...