Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how to lend & spend $2,816,905,000 to halt Depression II was the main subject before the Senate last week. Mississippi's Bilbo explained for four hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
...Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...
TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet...