Word: peppering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is?" he asked himself. He applied to Harvard, was admitted and got tuition, books and $100 a month support money from the Veterans Administration. The reason: during his brief Army service, spent training at the University of Alabama, he suffered an injury that developed into a double hernia. Pepper's appreciation for both education and a benevolent Uncle Sam was never to leave him: "I get so burned up when anybody tries to cut back on the money available to help needy students...
After Harvard, Pepper taught law for a year at the University of Arkansas, then set up practice in Perry, Fla. In the next eleven years, he handled some 30 murder cases, taking one of them successfully all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Active in Democratic politics, Pepper, at 28, became a member of the Florida Democratic executive committee. He won at the polls for the first of 15 times: he was elected to the Florida house of representatives. One of his first bills showed his early concern for the elderly. It would let anyone over 65 fish without a license...
...sense of racial fairness may have cost him his seat two years later. He was defeated after voting against a resolution that criticized Mrs. Herbert Hoover for inviting the wife of a black Congressman to the White House. Recalls Pepper: "I thought my political career had died aborning...
...resumed his law practice, opening an office in Tallahassee and bringing his parents to live with him in 1931. The Depression had proved ruinous to his father. Pepper learned firsthand the problems of the elderly, caring for his father until he died in 1945 at the age of 72 and his mother until her death...