Word: missourian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protestants, who protest only against any interference with their consumption of daily bread, many U. S. poets protest that that daily bread is so full of holes that it is more like daily starvation. Some of them, to get more literary nutrition, have gone to Europe: Missourian T. S. Eliot lives in England; Idahoan Ezra Pound lives in Italy. Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with...
Jimmie Cox, new athletic trainer, kneaded a baseball man's swollen ankle with educated fingers as he talked freely in his Kansas-Missourian drawl of his experiences as a trainer...
...dealing with Negro clerks when they go to the Recorder's office in the Century Building to file records of their real estate transactions. Dr. Thompkins, like other Negroes who have held the office, is used to this. A distinguished member of his race, the 56-year-old Missourian has studied at three universities. In Kansas City, where he is editor of the Kansas City American, he was first Negro superintendent of General Hospital No. 2 and chief of its surgical staff...
...Emmet O'Malley, who has certain powers over General American, grew exceedingly alarmed, loudly called the whole deal a brazen violation of Texas insurance laws, declared he would ask the Texas insurance superintendent to join him in court action to set it aside. Moreover, said the jealous Missourian, Mr. Milton had coerced the Texans into buying the two companies by threats that control would otherwise be sold to "undesirable" persons. Meantime, Mr. Milton, having made a clear $830,000 profit for his investment trust on the deal, departed on a Bermuda vacation...
Shortest term (two years) went to Ralph Waldo Morrison, Texan utilitarian, whom President Roosevelt sent to the London Economic Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does...