Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the wings of European diplomacy into Geneva's spotlight last week strolled that drawling Democrat from Tennessee, Norman H. Davis. A fairly large section of the European Press predicts that Mr. Davis is the next U. S. Secretary of State. Last week, however, he took the spotlight to speak for the man who made his comeback possible, Herbert Hoover...
...with an expert international knowledge. President Harding had such a man in Charles Evans Hughes. The favorite candidate for Democratic Secretary of State, at least with the Press, is Owen D. Young. Three other well-qualified gentlemen: John William Davis, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Norman H. Davis, onetime Undersecretary of State, now a U. S. arms delegate at Geneva; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War, always devoted to peace...
...votes," said Norman Thomas. Socialist candidate for President, on election day last week, "we will be moderately encouraged. Every vote over 1.500,000 will be decidedly encouraging. But every vote over 2,000,000 will be cause for tremendous jubilation." When most of the returns had trickled in. Candidate Thomas sadly discovered that he did not even have cause to be "moderately encouraged." Estimated "conservatively " the party believed it had polled 600,000 votes. 1.5%; of all votes cast...
Although this is probably true of the average college student, the huge vagueness of his ideal in its undoing. He is as unpractical as any young intellectual who voted for Norman Thomas, honestly inspired by a shadowy Utopianism. The same lack of practically applies to the conference. They would erect ideals and plan remedies for a distant future of which they have no conception, forgetting how useless it is to reform something that does not exist and may never exist. Overestimating the influence of the university on society they ignore that society, and hopefully strive to establish theories...
...Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry Ohio for Hoover. Rhode Island. Impressed with his strenuous campaign as the "All-Round Man" who, stripped to the waist, lugged stones (TIME, Nov. 7), voters preferred Democrat Theodore Francis Green as Governor to Republican Norman Stanley Case, incumbent...