Word: hares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss of the New York Governorship by less than 1 % of the total vote (4,821,631). To many a U. S. citizen Mr. Dewey was already a glamorous St. George; he became a top G. O. P. possibility for 1940. Mr. Dewey, in fact, looked like a political Hare. Down the track he dashed last week, lengths ahead of the field. The Hare...
Meanwhile Hare Dewey, topping all G. O. P. popularity polls, perfectly groomed and well advised, was on his way to Minneapolis to make.a speech on the farm problem before 12,000 people-and a national radio audience. Of the farm problem he made no mention, but his speech was a bull's-eye. Failure to give the people jobs, economic despair, defeatism-with these Mr. Dewey debited the New Deal, averred that business abuses can be cured without creating Government abuses...
...Taft this week received the Montclair-Yale Bowl-trophy awarded annually to the graduate who has "made his Y in life"-to the dopesters of the 1940 finish, the Tortoise's chances seemed better than the Hare...
...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
Last week a car speeding from Cicero crashed into a telephone pole, its windows shattered by bullets, a bloody corpse at its wheel. The man was Edward J. O'Hare, president of the National Jockey Club, president of Sportsman's Park track (once owned by Capone). In Cicero they had not forgotten...