Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first serious mistake was to acquire the services of a notorious swindler named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote...
George R. Stange, Chicago--Francis W. Parker School, Chicago...
...John S. Parker, Jr., Charles River--St. Mark's School...
Cats. The specialist who presented a survey of "some conditions encountered in cat practice," was Dr. F. F. Parker of Des Moines. "Twenty years ago, possibly because of my life-long affection for dogs," he admitted, "I would hardly have believed that I would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species...
...Finally seven names were left. In one group three Federal Circuit Court judges: Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...