Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gene Talmadge has hated the New Deal ever since it offended his official and masculine pride by adjudging him and his staff incompetent to administer Georgia's relief, putting a female Federal agent in control. But the Governor also fancies himself a political philosopher and fiercely hates the New Deal's expensive paternalism. Proclaiming himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, he believes in a free hand for business, the least and cheapest government possible...
...fecund little town in the Kingdom to expound his favorite rabbit philosophy of Empire. As the fathers & mothers of Potenza and their highly numerous offspring thronged around him with cheers, Orator Mussolini cried: "Those who have a right to Empire are the fecund peoples-those people who have the pride and the will to propagate their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES in the strictest meaning of those words!" In what appeared to be a slap at France, the Dictator contemptuously declared: "Peoples with empty cribs cannot create an Empire-and if they have an Empire the time will come when...
...folksy local interest. At Lexington, Neb., for instance, he recalled that he was in the hometown of Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest thing I've seen this summer...
...drive home the facts and their inexorable consequences to the people requires organization. . . . That organization has been entrusted to Mr. Hamilton. He has already demonstrated his abilities in this great task. I take pride in introducing...
...never forgot Birmingham's cast-iron pride were John Henry Adams, author of the grandiloquent inscription, and Thomas Joy. As a child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed...