Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Michigan's New Dealers were not allowed to vote in both Democratic and Republican primaries. No less than 270,000 of them voted on Democratic ballots to nominate Detroit's onetime Mayor, popular Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines to run against Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald who was renominated by the Republicans...
...sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to cool off the crew so that the President Hoover might...
With a crew of 50 the Nahlin has superluxe accommodation for only a small yachting party which Palace reports slated thus: King Edward, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Lord and Lady Brownlow and Mrs. Evelyn Fitzgerald. Citizens of the Balkans learned with pride that the Royal Party will board the Nahlin in Yugoslavian waters, cruise to Greece where conditions are ripe for another revolution, finally cruise around the Italian boot on a "Good Will Trip" symbolic of post-Sanctions peace between Imperial Britain and newly Imperial Italy...
...adding to its period reproductions a line of moderns in "softer form, with sweeping rather than boxlike lines." Promoter McKay, now Berkey & Gay's board chairman, became a hero to Grand Rapids. Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five months. Governor Fitzgerald wired congratulations. Beamed Mayor William Timmers: "If it weren't for the fact that hundreds of buyers have come thousands of miles to do business here, I would declare the day a legal holi...
...Saturday night the good men and true included such worthies as former Mayor John Fitzgerald, Charles Innes, Eliot Wadsworth, and other luminaries in the Hub firmament. They decided that Karen Andre was not guilty of the murder of her lover, Bjorne Faulkner, the notorious Swedish tycoon; which is just about the way things seemed to this unjudicial corner...