Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg musicale was by no means the only event that served to turn the political spotlight on Republicans last week. In New York, just back from his first visit to Europe in 19 years, Herbert Hoover, still his party's dean, sounded off. Main points: 100 dignitaries with whom he had conversed had given him the impression that immediate general war is unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country...
...such balance sheet the Republican Party's main asset does not appear. This is Depression, the chief cause assignable to the Gallup poll's recent indication that the G. O. P.'s 90 Representatives would be increased by 85. An infallible rule of U. S. politics has always been that bad times, whether justifiably or not, are always attributed by voters to the party in power, which consequently gets ousted. Current Depression, which more plausibly than most, can be attributed to the Federal Government, gives the G. O. P. what it has not had since...
...have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career, let him ... go into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents. . . . Bless those others on these seas and give them better, faster ships, and in the generations to come give us honest shipowners who will give a thought to the man. ... I cast the bottle containing this...
...competition a piece of sculpture by a Negro. Last week a jury, including San Antonio's wintering Artist Henry Lee McFee, awarded it first prize. The sculptor: Thurmond Townsend, 26, a $9.40-a-week bus boy in the Talk of the Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts of Washington and Lincoln from pictures, but he could not fix the ears right. On his way home from work...
Author Price's main reason for urging closer co-operation with Japan is unusual: ... If time modifies the Nipponese crusade, making it less militant and more cultural, less the elevation of a world-Emperor and more the spread of a world accord, she can do a real service in helping to wipe out the petty nationalism that is today plaguing most nations, including Japan." Anti-Japanese readers will certainly believe that lively Author Price is suffering from a Rising Sunstroke...