Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On Capitol Hill, two deans of the Senate, Lewis of Illinois and Borah of Idaho, arose to support this view. They were joined by rowdy Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who exclaimed: "We should wash behind our ears before telling other nations of the world to take a bath."
Scott Lucas, freshman Democrat from Illinois, was another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters...
"You are unable to rise above your personal ambitions and dictator complex."-Homer Martin to John Lewis.
Thus by the week end the Labor scene was in turmoil. Homer Martin, who seemed on his way to fame & power in 1937, was on the outside looking in at C. I. O. Two leaderships laid claim to U. A. W.'s contracts, bank accounts, membership. John L. Lewis...
In a book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis...