Word: haled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before every national election Maine gives a pre-season showing of political styles. Last week both parties strained every resource to win the State election. Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat...
...Republican candidate, Alfred K. Ames, an elderly retired lumber merchant, was no match in political give & take. But Republicans swarmed to his aid. To Maine they sent Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Representative Hamilton Fish, Col. Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, Representative Allen T. Treadway, and many another. Senator Hale declared flatly that to re-elect Governor Brann would be to endorse the New Deal...
Then Maine went to the polls. With 604 out of 631 precincts reported, Governor Brann had 164,087 votes, his opponent 32,956 less. Senator Hale had 137,149, a lead of 1,155. With complete returns from the first district, Carroll Beedy was defeated by Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat and self-styled "dirt farmer...
...Frank Morgan's smooth characterization can make Father White seem anything but a feeble illustration borrowed from a domestic-advice column. The rest of the cast of There's Always Tomorrow are unpleasant nonentities, engaged in difficulties as boring as they are unreal. Worst shot: young Henry White (Alan Hale) arguing with himself...
Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific arrived from Omaha in an ordinary Pullman on a pass. So did Lawrence A. Downs of Illinois Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money...