Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds one of the highest offices in the Federal Government." The letter in full as later ferreted out by the Press: "Mr. Eugene A. Russell "Boone, N. C. "My Dear Mr. Russell...
Quietly and politely, Mr. May proceeded to spoil completely the happy satisfaction which had been glowing in the face of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. since his comparatively triumphant appearance before the Committee last fortnight (TIME, May 11). From that gentleman farmer's prepared statement, Mr. May quoted a paragraph asserting that under present law, U. S. corporations would this year withhold from stockholders more than $4,500,000,000 of income, thus depriving the Treasury of some $1,300,.000,000 which it would receive in individual income taxes if that sum were distributed as dividends...
...small children-John Cobb, 2, and Nancy Josephine, 3. Mrs. Landon, whose digestion has suffered lately from all the excitement around her home, did not join them. At 8 the Governor set out with his new political secretary and speechwriter, Earl Howard Taylor, onetime associate editor of The Country Gentleman, to walk the eight blocks to Topeka's radio station WIBW, where he and a staff man rehearsed an interview he was going to give to Columbia Broadcasting's Commentator Hans V. Kaltenborn over a nationwide network two days later...
Notable were George Frederick Belcher's humorous paintings. Of his I/ Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls he said last week, "It is a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone...
...scratching her head.' " "Emotion is always justified by time, thought hardly ever." "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and har lots." "A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal success." "A good writer should be so simple that he has no faults, only sins...