Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply as a good old friend, Candidate Shaver last week found himself running against eight other Democrats in the primary. Old Dealer Hatfield romped away with the Republican nomination, but Oldster Shaver found rough going, finished a bad second. Polling two votes to Shaver's one, Rush Dew Holt, brightest boy in the State Legislature, took the Democratic nomination, Generalissimo Farley to the contrary notwithstanding...
Young Mr. Holt comes from a politically popular family. His father, Dr. Mathew Samuel Holt, running last year for Mayor of Weston, had his name ruled off the ticket by a technicality, campaigned nonetheless, was elected by voters who wrote in his name on the ballot. Son Rush, an affable young bachelor who does not drink, does not smoke cigarets, made his reputation in the Legislature by flaying public utilities. If he whips Old Dealer Hatfield in November, he will make an ardent New Dealer in the Senate...
...CHAOS - Ilya Ehrenbourg - Holt ($2.50). Another we'd-die-for-the-dear-old-steel-plant novel; of the same order but not nearly as good as Kataev's Time, Forward! (TIME...
...President imposed his fifth, sixth and seventh vetoes on bills: 1) to grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...play which won the game was started by Don Burbank's sacrifice bunt; a wild throw by Holt of Andover to third base allowed Tom Biledean to score. Bilodean pitched for the 1937 team and played a nice game from start to finish, striking out 12 men, allowing only seven hits, and walking only four men. Louis Carr was back in the lineup, playing short...