Word: hoey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoey (N.C.) Can anyone point to any measure which would be in the interest of the American people which has been defeated because of the existence of this rule? . . . There is no citizen in any one of the States who cannot pay $1 or $2 a year if he wishes to vote . . . We hear many talk about segregation as if it were discrimination. . . In reality it is just the reverse . . . God made the different races, but He did not combine them. He did not consodidate them. He did not mongrelize them...
Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania farmhouse...
...palace gardens; the sleepy camels and fiery horses; interior sets as sumptuous as Hollywood nightclubs and exteriors that make the Taj Mahal look ramshackle; the vagabond street singer, Aladdin (Cornel Wilde), whose love for beautiful Princess Armina (Adele Jergens) is thwarted by the Sultan's wicked brother (Dennis Hoey...
...list of those Senators who won without a struggle is studded with internationalists: Alabama's Lister Hill, Arizona's Carl Hayden, Arkansas' James William Fulbright, Florida's Claude Pepper, North Carolina's Clyde Hoey-Democrats all; plus G.O.P. Internationalists George Aiken of Vermont and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts...
...Clyde Hoey is lukewarm to the New Deal, but Southern-hot for internationalism. An ex-Governor of North Carolina, Hoey is a brother-in-law of O. Max Gardner, another ex-Governor, now a lawyer-lobbyist, whose political machine is known as the "Gardner Dynasty." Hoey and the Gardner Dynasty had an easy time beating out still another ex-Governor, the famed "Cam" Morrison, 74, who held the Senate seat before Bob Reynolds beat him in 1932 by telling North Carolinians in horror that "Cam" actually ate caviar, "fish aigs that come from Red Rooshia...