Word: gore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those competitors retained after the nominations yesterday are John Cromwell '36, Charles B. Feibleman '36, George Gore '34, Richard P. Harmon '35, Victor H. Kramer '35, Melvin Levy '36, Leonard C. Lewin '36, Asa E. Smith '34, Malcolm I. Ruddock '34, George Sullivan '36, William E. Smith '35, Richard P. Wheeler ocC, Charles W. Youngblut '34, John R. Yungblut '35. The contestants were judged on the is of their total relative effectiveness...
When his secretary read the list aloud to blind Senator Gore, that Oklahoman tapped his way on to the Senate floor to introduce an amendment to the Revenue Bill placing a tax of 80% on all salaries and bonuses over $75,000 per year. Said he: "I have received approval of my program ... in telegrams received from hundreds of stockholders who have received no income . . . while the officers of non-paying corporations lived in luxury on fat salaries and huge bonuses...
According to the publishers of "Mad Hatter's Village," by Mary Cavendish Gore, the authoress' first published novel, she were out three different typewriters composing twelve earlier ones. Different publishers asked Miss Gore, or sometimes the pseudonymous persons she pretended to be, to revise five of these novels but she spurned such requests. However, she completely rewrote "Mad Hatter's Village" which was a conversation in its original form...
...Miss Gore was born on the banks of the Shannon, a member of a large and odd family," and was reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores...
...wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore village--the scene of her novel--and "has done nothing but write, read, swim and tramp the hills for six years...