Word: floridation
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...best-hated man in public service. He interprets the literal law of Congress as to how money should be spent and from his decisions there is no appeal. The legal authority for spending 5? is as important to him as a $1,000,000,000 appropriation. A short, florid man, he is personally affable, officially inexorable...
...political tradition the Labor portfolio since its creation in 1913 has gone to union men. President Wilson first appointed Pennsylvania's fat, florid William Bauchop Wilson, an oldtime walking delegate. President Harding put in Pennsylvania's stubby, back-slapping James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis who retained his card as an organized steel worker and spent much public time promoting the Loyal Order of Moose. President Hoover picked William Nuckles Doak, a heavy-handed member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius, her third novel, is a florid 325-page portrait polished off with workmanlike aplomb...
Died. Charles Howard Kline, 62, one-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, convicted last year of official malfeasance; of apoplexy; in Pittsburgh. A florid, prognathous man with a taste for flashy clothes, he was the only Pittsburgh mayor to serve two successive terms under the city's present charter (which dates from...
...same day last week Premier Edouard Daladier received at 10:30 a. m. President Roosevelt's special "Disarmament Ambassador." ever-optimistic Norman H. Davis, and Britain's Air Minister, florid Lord Londonderry. After chatting through lunch and all afternoon, the statesmen shook hands in friendly disagreement...