Word: huddlestone
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...economies effected, each of the Big Four has much to do. C. & O. must arrange to buy Lehigh Valley from Pennsylvania and the closely held Bessemer & Lake Erie from U. S. Steel Corp. Pennsylvania must shuffle off its New England holdings. New York Central must persuade the Henry Huddleston Rogers estate to part with Virginian, now held for a fancy price. B. & O. must buy New York Central out of Reading and complete its ownership of Western Maryland. As each system pieces together its many parts, it must appear before the I. C. C. with an application to execute...
Democratic House leaders took heart for the passage of their bill when small, lean Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, one of the most irregular and radical of their flock, uprose in its defense. Said...
...Democrat Huddleston: Of course you all know how irresponsible I am [loud Democratic laughter]. Yes, I'm without following and am responsible to nobody. So I can afford to tell the truth...
...Democrat Huddleston of Alabama, fiery little advocate of direct Federal relief for unemployment: The State of the Union is darned bad! President Hoover has given an outright dole to the railroads. He would give a dole to the building and loan associations. He would come to the aid of banks with frozen assets. He would help foreign countries by the Moratorium. . . . To these interests he would give billions but to starving American women and children he wouldn't give one red cent. In the White House we have a man more interested in the pocketbooks of the rich than...
Last week, Mrs. Huddleston returned to Lake Tahoe. Clad in an unbecoming one-piece bathing suit and a coating of grease, she waddled into the water at Glenbrook, Nev., at 7:45 one morning, began to swim an American crawl toward Tahoe Tavern, Calif., 16 miles away. Almost immediately, she began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice...