Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-pressure salesman-ship in loosening the purse-strings of the country. In the grand tradition of the confectioners who created Mother's Day to sell more chocolate creams and the haberdashers who invented Father's Day to sell more ties, comes a fanfare of advertisements from Mr. Owen D. Young. urging every American to give more than he really intended so that he will see that happy, proud look in the eyes of the little woman back home. The allurements of Mrs. MacPherson, the fascinations of church fairs, and the excitements of football games have all been enlisted...
...moment is Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. His out-&-out Wetness led observers to believe that the Smith-Raskob wing of Democracy would favor him for the nomination if Governor Roosevelt persists in weasling. Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland continued as a passive candidate. The name of Owen D. Young faded more & more out of Democratic Presidential speculation, due largely to his refusal to countenance his own candidacy. Favorite sons included Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Governor-Elect Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey, Governor William Henry Murray of Oklahoma...
...that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...
...have assumed that this letter is the futile cry of a voice in the wilderness and will move no stone. However, let the voice add, if Owen D. Young, who started the commotion, and the members of his financial plane would give the same proportion of their annual income as bookkeepers, shop girls and mill-hands have given and are giving, the unemployed would have no worries, and colleges would never be asked to contribute to a cause outside their province. Schafer Williams...
Sued for Divorce. Pauline Lord, actress (Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) ; by Owen Burtch Winters, Manhattan advertising man, originator of Camel Cigaret's Cellophane advertising campaign; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...