Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Roosevelt forces under Alfred Emanuel Smith had opened a stinging fire on the candidacy of the New York Governor. This party strife a hundred newsmen, ablest of their profession, were on hand to megaphone to the country. On the front page of his nationwide press Democrat William Randolph Hearst, having plumped for the candidacy of Speaker Garner and found it hopeless, exhorted Democrats to be truly democratic and drop the old two-thirds rule required for nomination. His press was not above fabricating reports of a Wall Street meeting of "160 prospective angels for this year's Democratic presidential...
Joseph Richard Kraus, vice-chairman of Cleveland's Union Trust Co. (total resources: $290,000,000), was elected board chairman, succeeding Joseph Randolph Nutt, treasurer of the Republican National Committee...
Upshot of the meeting was the adoption of a set of resolutions calling upon the Federal Government to: 1) amend the Reconstruction Finance Corp. act so as to allow indigent municipalities to borrow from that agency; 2) authorize a five-billion-dollar bond issue for public works (William Randolph Hearst's "Prosperity Loan"). For two years the Washington Government has insisted that local governments carry their own distress problems. Last week's meeting was local government's first organized appeal from this policy...
...Evanston, Ill., Tommy Randolph, 3, halted before a team of horses, shrilled "Giddap." Obedient, the horses clumped right over small Tommy Randolph, pulled the wagon across his trampled body...
Divorced. William Randolph Hearst Jr., president of his father's New York American; by Alma Walker Hearst; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...