Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the bold Irish mug of the Ambassador to Great Britain appears again on TIME'S cover [Sept. 18] or before he runs for President, I hope Kathleen or her handsome mother can do something about those hornrimmed glasses he affects. Some Kennedys think themselves wise as owls. Joe must want to look like...
Just behind and to his left was Cordell Hull. In semicircle before him sat Vice President Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...
...Days. This time his battle is bigger, broader, deeper. In it will be no place for his indecision, his flexible politician's outlook that once caused the late Joe Robinson to suggest as a 1936 GOPresidential slogan: "Vacuity, Vacillation and Vandenberg...
...Janizary Tom Corcoran, whom Raymond Moley introduced to palace councils, appears as a perennial sophomore. Author Moley blandly notes a private talk with Corcoran. Said Corcoran, explaining how he would get around Franklin Roosevelt's implied promise to put the late Joe Robinson on the Supreme Court: ". . . There aren't any binding promises in politics. There isn't any binding law. You just know that the strongest side wins...
...third first team touchdown came on a pass from Macdonald's sub, Fran Lee, to Joe Gardella. For all three conversions, it was Charlie Spreyer who did the kicking, and successfully, too. In fact Spreyer figured considerably in the A attack, alternating with the tailback in slashing the reserve line...