Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
...this habitual tribute to a great political figure, everyone was, as usual, ready with a so-called explanation. Rush Holt said it was a victory for Isolationism...
...raise $150,000 to carry on its activities through the fall, and gave an accounting of its finances to date: $131,543.56. Touchy since Senator Rush Holt linked it with Wall Street, the Committee reported it had received 4,666 gifts, 3,000 of them under $10, only two for more than $1,000. (When the Committee was first organized. Chairman White endorsed two checks for $500 each, one from J. P. Morgan, one from Labor Leader David Dubinsky...
Amateurs. Candidate Willkie was soon hard put to it to find new ways of welcoming newsworthy recruits. President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College came out for him. So did President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth, Nobel Prizewinners Dean George Whipple of Rochester University, Dr. George Minot of Harvard. ("I am very much pleased that this type of citizen is coming out for me. These men represent the very best in our intellectual and social life. . . .") So did President Charles Seymour of Yale ("a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...