Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion of Decency, Hollywood producers have recently conducted unprecedented raids on U. S. nurseries and cradles. In the past year, Baby LeRoy (It's a Gift), Frankie Thomas (Wednesday's Child), Georgie Breakstone (No Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since...
...Arthur James Moore, John Monroe Moore, A. Frank Smith; Presbyterians William Hiram Foulkes of Newark, N. J., Joseph Richard Sizoo of Washington, D. C.; Congregationalists S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, James Gordon Gilkey of Springfield, Mass.; Methodists Ralph Eugene Diffendorfer and Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan; President Ivan Lee Holt of the Federal Council of Churches...
...Republican half of the Senate Chamber where stood his desk and 26 others. Crowded together across the aisle were 69 desks for 69 Senate Democrats. But the majority will not be able to muster 69 Democratic votes until after June 19 when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt celebrates his 30th birthday and thereby becomes constitutionally eligible to be sworn in and take his Senate seat...
Equally wistful was another unsworn in the Senator, Rush Dew Holt. He sat bemused in the back of the chamber. Only one thing stood in the way of his casting votes in the body to which the people of West Virginia elected him - the U. S. Constitution. That old document says inflexibly: No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years...
...Rush Holt's 30th birthday falls on June 19 and although the huge Democratic majority could, if it would, seat him, it knows only too well the national howl the Republicans would set up about the New Deal caring nought for the Constitution. Hence Majority Leader Robinson ordered Youngster Holt to bide his time. In June, if Congress is still in session, the majority will vote Holt his seat. Meantime he will cast no votes, but he, too, has a seat with his name on it, an office and clerks, and the expectation of $833 a month...