Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coalition ticket did not really boom until the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune plumped for it in a front-page editorial last week. Democrats actually suggested for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination were Virginia's Senator Byrd, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Newton D. Baker, Lewis W. Douglas. "The liquidation of the New Deal," cried the Herald Tribune, "calls for a permanent alliance of all who would keep America American...
...could enjoy at Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served on Wilson's War Industries Board and on Roosevelt's first National Labor Board...
...their platform from the current and historic tenets of both major parties, it was soon evident they had pleased neither. No Republican leader spoke up to praise them. On behalf of the Administration, Senator Minton of Indiana sneered: "My idea of a platform would be one to repudiate Newton Baker rather than the New Deal...
...leader prepared at Newton Country Day School, where he started his career over the hurdles and in the springs which has carried him up through the Freshman team and last year's Varsity squad...
...Baptist solidarity - though neither convention discussed merging during their sessions - the Fellowship Meeting was presided over alternately by President James Henry Franklin of the Northern Baptists and President John Richard Sampey of the Southern. In oratory the meeting was a draw. Professor Emeritus Frederick Lincoln Anderson of Andover-Newton Theological Seminary led off: "The tyrants who sit in Rome, Moscow and Berlin. . . ." Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the World Baptist Alliance, countered with a thundering speech on missions : "If we Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then...