Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanent chairmanship. Originally picked to preside was Jouett Shouse, able chief at the Washington headquarters. Roosevelt supporters had agreed to his election and the Governor was supposed to have sanctioned him. Then it was announced that Governor Roosevelt's man for the chair was Montana's grey-grim Senator Walsh. Mr. Shouse had been ditched, it was explained, because he did not favor the Roosevelt candidacy. Quickly the anti-Roosevelt battalions rallied to Mr. Shouse's support, charging that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith. Al Smith vehemently declared: "A principle is at stake?the principle of keeping your...
Candidate Roosevelt began by announcing (through his manager) that his last-minute choice for permanent convention chairman was Montana's grey, grim Senator Thomas James Walsh, famed Oil Scandal investigator, who presided over the long-drawn convention...
...editorial in the June Forum attacks the grim problem of employment facing so many of the alumni of 1932 by suggesting that the well-to-do graduates spend at least two years abroad "exploring the minds and strange conduct of the very different peoples who make our planet so much unalike." The editor cites the fact that the number of men from the Harvard class of 1932 who intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these...
...with Battalino's blood from nose, lips, eyes, scalp. Again Battalino kept wading forward, always forward, to the end. Again it was Petrolle's hand which the referee held up, though this time on a close decision and not for a technical knockout of the grim, game, gory Battalino...
...itself bv tearing open a bag of green powder scattering the contents on the bull's hay The bull began eating the hay. When Farmer Lewis entered the barn he found his bull poisoned, dying. The monkey was still chattering while it licked Paris green from s paws. Grim Farmer Lewis said nothing. Soon the monkey stopped chattering curled up, died...