Word: harnessers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1924 the elder La Follette again cast off his Republican harness to accept a third-party nomination from the Conference for Progressive Political Action. As a personal hero and with the backing of the Socialist Party, he rolled up the amazing total of nearly 5,000,000 popular votes...
The difficulty of defeating Governor Brann lay in his big personal popularity. Knowing Maine's inborn conservatism, he did not pose as an ardent supporter of the New Deal. But he made use of New Deal support. Army engineers had rejected a proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000...
When the President finally allowed him to go home last week, Governor Black was still kept in New Deal harness under a new title?a favorite Roosevelt gesture when letting an important subordinate go. He was made "liaison officer" between bankers and the Administration. Asked if the continuous traveling involved...
Schiaparelli. "Of course we don't want pants," cried Elsa Schiaparelli in a speech before Manhattan's Fashion Group last year. "Men are already ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of...
Even at the peak of his renown he had great visions. In 1900 he was ready to cure tuberculosis with oscillating electricity. In 1909 he promised motors capable of driving ocean liners at 50 knots. In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers. In the last decade his annual utterances...