Word: ohioans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your review of Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27) you quote Antony's last words to Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
...speech of Huey Long is "a splendid example of the lower middle classes of the Lower Mississippi Valley." Raymond Moley speaks purest Ohioan. Franklin Roosevelt is "a fine example of an educated American," using few localisms and little of the vestigial British accent typical of his class...
Smokeout. Major result of the cross-fire of accusation and denial was that smart little Hugo LaFayette Black's Senate investigating committee at last got onetime Postmaster General Brown to testify before it, no holds barred. Less than a week after he had written his fellow Ohioan, Senator Simeon D. Fess, that he would face the committee "at the earliest date convenient" and that "anything I may say may be used against me in any court in the land," Walter Brown walked into the committee's hearing room in the Senate Office Building...
Dearly would Socialist Norman Thomas of New York City like to be the eighth Ohioan, the third Princetonian to sit in the White House. Last week, at the Socialist National Convention in Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination. As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity...
...then, explain the prominence of Newton D. Baker among the possible Democratic nominees? Testimony comes in to tell of a prevailing Baker sentiment throughout the nation which persists in spite of the lack of any active organized effort to promote the Ohioan's candidacy. A poll taken recently of Democratic newspaper editors revealed nearly as many predictions of Baker's election as of Roosevelt's. Prominent party politicians, while discreetly silent in states where Mr. Baker's own withheld permission is necessary for their appearance at Chicago as official delegates, are known to harbor a secret desire for the fateful...