Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Millard E. Tydings, 45, U. S. Senator from Maryland since 1927. Democrat, firm foe of the New Deal; and Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough, Washington socialite, daughter of Joseph Edward Davies, onetime (1915-16) Federal Trade Commission Chairman...
...Emperor but also Italy's Dictator to grave misgivings. In a fresh public warning to Britons last week Benito Mussolini, although still in private negotiation with Sir Samuel Hoare through intermediaries, declared: "Italians will organize a most desperate resistance [against sanctions] and will distinguish between friend and foe...
...streets as Wisconsin's first 2? daily. He introduced the first linotype to Milwaukee, scooped his rivals by using carrier pigeons in covering local events (see p. 42). His paper won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for its campaign against German propaganda. Once a bitter foe of big business, Publisher Nieman mellowed as his paper grew rich (1929 profits: $1.600.000). finally became an opponent of the La Follette brothers...
Vigorously, if irrelevantly, he speaks of King David's fights, then lists his captains: Sammotli, the Harorite; Helez, the Pelonite; Hezro, the Carmelite; Colo, the Anthracite; Rudo, the Impolite; Booko, the Erudite; And he who gave the foe no rest, Though not the bravest or the best, Stingo, the Skeeterbite...
...vote, it was to inform Mr. Corcoran that he had discovered himself in a "peculiar political position" in Maine and could not make the speech. Dismayed, Mr. Corcoran arranged to meet him and Dr. Gruening in Statuary Hall just before the vote. There Maine's No. 1 Power foe made the astounding revelation that he was not only not going to speak for the "death sentence'' but was not even going to vote...