Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...girl of 16: 80% beauty; 20% mental coquetry...
...woman of 30: 50% beauty; 15% mental coquetry; 15% intelligence; 10% physical coquetry; 10% generosity...
...vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made no mention of the interruption. The youth told police he was Marlin Kemmerer, 25, of Allentown, Pa. where he works in the sporting goods department of a Sears, Roebuck store. His friends described him as an expert marksman. Before hospitalizing him for mental observation, police found two sticks of dynamite in his rooming house, a ten-page speech in his pocket. Said he: "You need a gun these days to get the right to make a speech...
...there is no "amnesia" or any other mental thing wrong with my family will you please permit me to state that I am no relation to President Hoover's unfortunate friend, Col. Raymond Robins for whom I have every sympathy...