Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MITCHELL PALMER...
With Tennessee's Senator Hull, Alexander Mitchell Palmer, onetime (1919-21) Attorney General of the U. S., drafted in committee most of the Democratic platform adopted by the Chicago convention. TIME, July 11, quoted its most specific planks including a 25% economy pledge, data on the sale of stocks and bonds, no War Debt cancellation and Philippine independence. The platform's "vagueness" is illustrated by the following important planks...
Agriculture: "We advocate . . . effective control of crop surpluses so that our farmers may have the full benefit of the domestic market . . . enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the farmer to receive for basic farm commodities prices in excess of cost of production." Will Platformer Palmer define "effective control"? Will he specify "every constitutional measure...
...guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic Co.) put up $500,000 for canal locks. Such investments provided a potent argument for the sportsmen in their campaign for more ducking days...
...found "the most perfect human being I had ever seen"?Eugene Sandow, the strong man. New York had laughed at Sandow. Ziegfeld took him to Chicago, cleared as high as $30,000 per week exhibiting him after he had inveigled Mrs. George Pullman and Mrs. Potter Palmer into feeling his muscles. After Sandow his "most perfect human beings" were all women...