Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publicized by Brother Rats John Monks Jr. and Fred Finklehoff in Broadway and cinema successes. Other Brother Rats: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, Cinema Hero Jack Holt...
Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...
Play Worlds SHAKESPEARE-Mark Van Doren-Holt...
...group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...Roosevelt. For the cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...