Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...
...burning a question that it is almost certain to provoke heated debate, they did not even mention. Among prominent governors present were Lennington Small, Illinois; John E. Martineau, Arkansas; Ed Jackson, Indiana; John Hammill, Iowa; Ralph O. Brewster, Maine (president of the conference) ; and Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. Among prominent governors not present were Dan Moody, Texas; Alvan T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Alfred E. Smith, New York; Charles C. Young, Calfornia; George W. P. Hunt,* Arizona...
...Hampshire. And at the University of Virginia, halls were swept for an Institute of Public Affairs, designed to air chiefly domestic problems of the U. S. Among the vigilantes scheduled to appear at Charlottesville, Va., were Governors Alfred E. Smith of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, Director of the Budget General H. M. Lord; Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; various university presidents, senators past and present, Government experts, college professors...
...There have been six Jewish U. S. Senators?Philip Judah Benjamin, Louisiana (1853-61); Simon Guggenheim, Colorado (1907-13); Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana (1879-85) ; Isidor Rayner, Maryland (1904-10) ; Joseph Simon, Oregon (1897-1903) ; David Levy Yulee,* Florida (1845-51 and 1855-61). There were ten Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis...
Married. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 53, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; to Mlle. Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechterva; in Paris. In 1903 he married Mrs. Evelyn Smith Tome, first woman president of a National Bank,* who died last April (TIME, May 2), widow of Jacob Tome, with whom she founded the Tome Institute (commonly called Tome School), at Port Deposit...