Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt landed in California from the Philippines. His friend Senator Minton announced: "The entire McNutt campaign is predicated on the assumption the President will...
...Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, who sailed for home last week to start his campaign...
Rube Goldberg, who draws the screwiest comic strips in the U. S. (Boob McNutt, Lala Palooza), and the stodgy New York Sun have one thing in common: conservatism in politics. Last week the Sun hired Rube as its political cartoonist, first one it has had in 18 years...
...discontent of farmers over AAA's failure to elevate corn and wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even...
Into the vacant Assistant Secretaryship in June 1937 stepped Legionnaire Johnson. In the newspapers began to appear paragraphs like the following: ". . . It seems . . . that the new Assistant Secretary of War . . . is going to be promoted to Secretary. . . . Another ex-Commander [of the Legion] Paul V. McNutt, will soon be ex-High Commissioner of the Philippines. . . . The other ex-Commander and present War Secretary, Harry Woodring, would not be stepping downward if he stepped into Mr. McNutt's Philippine boots, even if they're pinching the incumbent...