Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stroke, Bacon: 7, Stickney: 6, Ballowell: 5, Rood: 4, Parker: 3, Nickerson: 2, Rice: bow, McKesson: coxswain, Becker...
...full on her beam, washing her toward the mark. The seas were lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...
...voted for: Tax Reduction (1929), the Tariff (1930), confirmation of John Johnston Parker as a justice of the Supreme Court...
...agile debater, he shuns the rough-and-tumble of senatorial controversy. Only two formal speeches has he made, a highly orthodox Republican defense of the Republican tariff, an apologia for his Parker vote. (His friends understood that he put aside his own convictions on this case to support his President for Party reasons.) His manner of address is direct, dignified, rather dull. No dramatic sense vitalizes his voice...
...miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died in it in 1928. Cyrus Locker was voted out of it the same year. Theodore Elijah Burton died...