Word: gores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Hayes Gore was made Governor of Puerto Rico last July not because he was particularly informed on insular affairs but because he had loudly thumped for President Roosevelt's election in his string of Florida newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor...
...following were appointed to the Commission: J. D. Norton, '34, chairman; W. S. Sims, Jr. 1G.; David Popper 1G.; E. N. Stilson 1G.; E. G. Latham 1G.; M. G. Eliot 1G.; R. M. Goodwin '34; George Gore '34; H. S. Saxe '34; John Sapienza '34; B. M. Bowie 35; R. G. Olsen...
...houses, the motor cars, the jail cells of the prominent and of the unvirtuous, and to record all for the delectation of the multitude. For one reader of the small boxes on Bitler's foreign policy and the mechanics of his dispensation there are a thousand glutted in the gore of Stasefurt hardware dealers and privy to the use of the Nazl truncheon...
...were Rex Martin, Wartime flyer, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game he got directly to Presi dent Roosevelt, impressed him with his knowledge and ability. Last week, reputedly at the President's insistence, "Gene" Vidal became civil aviation's head man in the newly created job of Director of Aeronautics. Airplane manufacturers and operators viewed...
...curdling pictures as went into The Honor of It published last year by Brewer, Warren & Putnam as a frankly pacifist tract (TIME, March 21, 1932). Though The First World War contains half a dozen prints used in The Horror of It its totality of effect is not achieved by gore or rotting human flesh. Its awfulness results from reducing death and destruction to a commonplace...