Word: ham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan Commissioner Ralph Willard Evans, who fortnight ago took over Pacific States "to conserve and protect the investments of thousands of people"; 2) retired Millionaire Norman Waite Church, who was appointed custodian of the company; 3) ham-fisted Robert Stewart Odell, Pacific States' chief owner...
Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass
...effectiveness of her portrayal. It is unfortunate for "West of Broadway" that the same cannot be said for Walter Abel; he poses from one side of the stage to the other; and though the audience is expected to envision him as something of a great or romantic ham, he is unconvincing their as great or romantic; his greatest asset is his flawless reading of lines...
...Spanish War banqueting in Baltimore's Southern Hotel last week were startled when an unscheduled speaker arose in their midst. The veterans' commander-in-chief, Thomas W. Payne, had just concluded the evening's big speech, in which he had waved the flag for ham-handed Representative Dies† and his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities. The unheralded speaker, tall, iron grey, with a noble-Roman nose, announced: "I have seen the Dies committee in action in its hearings. It appears to me that Congressman Dies wants to be Vice President of the United States...
...fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...