Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coleman Livingston Blease was defeated by James Francis Byrnes, Spartanburg attorney, onetime (1911-25) Representative and Senator Blease's unsuccessful opponent six years ago (TIME, Sept. 8). Organized Labor helped materially to turn out Senator Blease because he had voted for the Supreme Court nomination of John Johnston Parker and had failed to support textile mill strikers affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. Many another vote was cast against him for his defense of lynching, his frank avowal of being a drinking...
...Still unplaced is Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations who, his friends say, aspires to a big public rather than private financial...
...August 16 issue of Liberty contained a story headed The Biography of Loar, by Parker Bloser. It was a good story and well liked by a lot of people who read it. The trouble with it was that Mr. Bloser didn't write...
Ever since 1914, the British Government and British Business have been acutely conscious of the value of U. S. goodwill. Scarcely was the War declared than the elderly Canadian-born British novelist Sir Gilbert (The Seats of the Mighty) Parker arrived in the U. S. and began the backbreaking work of British propaganda in the U. S. which in 1917-18 was to develop into the most tremendous propaganda organization in the world under the late Lord Northcliffe and the master propagandist and secret service organizer, Sir William Wiseman...
...Institute of Architects, officially joining the Save-the-Scenery movement. From Manhattan appeals to 70 member societies were issued. All Architects were urged to enlist local booster clubs, civic authorities, most of all to exhort state legislatures, in whose province lie curtailment powers. At the same time William Stanley Parker of Boston was named by the Institute to aid a test case, expected to prove a precedent, now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, in which the Massachusetts Billboard Law Defense Committee hopes to determine whether property can be constitutionally regulated...