Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Houses ruled that the Navy could buy no more foreign canned beef-after Mr. Roosevelt had stung Western Congressmen last week by declaring that the Argentine brand was better than the U. S. brand...
...while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
...some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize something called American Nationalists, Inc., which he endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George Rice" told Dudley Gilbert eye-popping stories about the coming revolution. Dudley Gilbert hastened to build...
With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were...
Last time Alexander Fell Whitney was heard of, John Lewis nominated him to head up U. S. Labor when & if C. I. O. and A. F. of L. reunite. Last week in Cleveland able, white-topped Mr. Whitney showed how he runs his own Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...