Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...management succeeded in cutting the deficit down to $600,000 in 1933 but next year the notorious airmail cancellations dealt American Airways a $4,500,000 wallop and it had to reorganize, emerging in its present form as American Airlines, Inc. The same year American got its present president, homespun, slangy Cyrus Rowlett ("C. R.") Smith of Texas...
...most interesting U. S. colleges is Berea, an institution in the Kentucky mountains for the higher education of smart hillbillies. Its president is small, unsanguine Dr. William James Hutchins, who wears homespun suits made by his students, once said of his graduates, "I feel like a man who throws naked babies into an Arctic...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
...hrer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the Baltic Sea and Lithuania. The population is a piddling 152,000, some 78% of them claimed by Germany. Memel has no industries important enough for the Nazis to boast of and Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania...
Last week out stepped a new bidder for mass leadership. He is 54, florid, fleshy and fresh. He comes from the western end of North Carolina. His name is Robert Rice Reynolds. Called "Our Bob" by the homespun folks who vote for him, he is half-baked, has been in the U. S. Senate since 1932. This session two inspirations have made him more vocal than usual...