Word: n
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt's mispronunciations sound just as bad as Alfred Landon's. However, there is good authority for pronouncing "again" with a long aa" and TIME is not prepared to say whether the President or Reader Strong's radio elides the first "n" in "government." One clear case of Rooseveltian mispronunciation, TIME has called attention to: he and his son James both pronounce the "t" in "often" (TIME, March...
...Pennsylvania the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee wrote a different story. In smoky Pittsburgh, Democratic Mayor Cornelius D. Scully polled 122,400 votes to the 92,800 for Robert N. Waddell, onetime Carnegie Tech football coach. S. W. O. C. mayors and burgesses were swept into office in the historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan...
...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...