Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
...Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, onetime (1928) candidate for Vice President, downright, not too bright, given to thunderous wrath...
...side stood the Insull-controlled New England Public Service Co., parent company of Central Maine Power Co., and four Maine textile mills. It openly and expensively campaigned for power export. Leader of its fight was Walter S. Wyman, President of the Central Maine. He reported that the funds expended in the campaign were the result of Insull profits in Texas, were not profits taken from Maine consumers. On the same side were former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1921-25) and numerous newspapers including the papers published by Guy Patterson Gannett.* Together they bombarded Maine with advice to permit power export...
...unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses. Comrades rallied in naked protest shouting "Jesus would not carry...
...Yachtsman Walter Marks is a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister's own party (Nationalist). Since the elections of last year the Government has had only the barest majority. Every vote has been vital. As a matter of course Nationalist Yachtsman Marks has voted with his party leader, Nationalist Bruce. But recently there have been ominous rumors that he had entered into a secret understanding with the Prime Minister's bitterest personal enemy, a third Nationalist, onetime (1915-23) Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...