Word: gore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate. That evening there was only one, Minnesota's bitter, blatant Thomas David Schall having died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile. One evening last week the Senate lost its second blind man when Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore, no New Dealer, finished fourth in a primary race for the Democratic nomination to his seat...
Famed for biting wit since he went to Washington as one of Oklahoma's first two Senators in 1907, "Tom" Gore once remarked in the course of a debate on inflation: ''If cheap money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting?" Last week the white-thatched old statesman acknowledged defeat thus: ''The law of evolution is adapt or die, and I didn't adapt...
...career distinguished by stanch independence, it was not the first time that blind Senator Gore had lost his job because of opposition to a Democratic President. In 1916-17 he fought Woodrow Wilson's drift toward war, fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill...
Nobody knows better than Britain's new Colonial Secretary William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore the history behind the terror that Arabs were last week waging against Jews in Palestine. During the War he was not only an intelligence officer with the Arab Bureau in the Near East, but assistant political officer in Palestine. In a statement on the Palestine terror in the House of Commons last fortnight he confined himself to droning out the bloody score: some 40 Arabs, half a dozen British soldiers, some 30 Jews killed. "The daily average of attacks by firearms in Palestine," continued...
Just the man for last week's trouble in Palestine (see p. 16) was Ormsby-Gore. His Wartime service included political work in Palestine, intelligence work in the Arab Bureau and active service in Egypt. Since then he has twice been a politically intelligent Undersecretary of State for Colonies and Britain's member of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission...