Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fights fought by the late Royal S. Copeland was for adequate antiaircraft equipment for the army. As Senator from New York, he could well visualize what might happen to the topless towers of Manhattan if enemy bombers ever laid eggs among them. Inland Senators were apathetic, but other coast Senators agreed. He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went...
...Although Maryland's Democrats have thrice tried to disfranchise Negroes by law, the majority of the 30% who vote went Democratic in 1936, shepherded by their late boss, black Saloonkeeper Tom Smith, who was a great & good political friend of Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. As Democrats they were freely invited to enter this week's primary to smear Senator Tydings. Because the Senator still had an inner track with Boss Smith's heirs, he was one purgee who did not protest...
...discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization. But he was too late, and Franklin Roosevelt branded his brow along with that of Millard Tydings by declaring that a New York Post editorial denouncing both expressed his sentiments (TIME...
This fall in Massachusetts no Senator has a seat at stake, no important Representative is likely to be liquidated and the most engaging characters on the political stage are two young Boston blue bloods. Robert F. Bradford, now 35, is the son of the late famed Surgeon Edward Hickling Bradford in direct descent from Pilgrim Father William Bradford. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, 31, is a son of the famed liberal Unitarian minister, Samuel Eliot, and grandson of the late, even more famed Harvard President Charles W. Eliot...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...