Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
...Kansas City, Mo., Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft crossed a picket line and a precedent to dine at the Kansas City Club-despite the fact that the A. F. of L.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employes' union has picketed the club for a year...
Died. Lorin Wright, 77, little-known elder brother of the famed Orville and the late Wilbur Wright, business genius for his plane-brained brothers in their early manufacturing days; after long illness; in Dayton, Ohio...
...From a lady in Hamilton, Ohio: ". . . this glittering coruscation of impalpable sound. ... I fled to my bed determined that I should never again be so vulnerable to such perfection. I didn't have the strength to dance, or laugh, or cry, or shout...
...early 19th Century, Vienna, imperial city of the Habsburgs, was about the size of Dayton, Ohio. For a little city, it had big appetites. In an average year its 200,000 citizens ate 12,967 suckling pigs, drank 382,578 barrels of beer, 473,339 barrels of wine. Even more impressive than the way they ate and drank was the way the Viennese waltzed. Every night in the week, a quarter of the entire population whirled themselves dizzy in Vienna's dance halls...