Word: rans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...living simply, getting up early, working hard. One such was John Quincy Adams who felt that he could not have endured existence had it not been for Homer. Venerated by the country at large, hated by his own party, he fought the aristocrats of Boston when their selfish claims ran counter to the national welfare, was one of the greatest of living statesmen who was content to be known as one of the most modest poets the country had produced. An actor's letter asking his advice on Othello gave him more pleasure than all his political honors...
...Philadelphia last June. Fortnight ago, after much soul-searching, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley picked his Negro campaign managers. Last week the Republicans completed their slate of Negro managers. Estimates of the amount of money both parties will spend to corral the Negro vote before election day ran as high...
...Cadillac Hotel assembled last week a group of Democrats burning to pronounce a malediction on the New Deal. They included Missouri's onetime Senator James A. Reed, Woodrow Wilson's onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckenridge, who ran this year in many a primary as an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, Joseph W. Bailey Jr., son of Texas' late great Senator, some twoscore political has-beens. Virtually every anti-Roosevelt Democrat who still has political ambitions stayed discreetly away...
...squat, roly-poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple...
...such rowdy high jinks by organized jobless in the galleries last week forced Pennsylvania's General Assembly into submission. For 13 weeks its Democratic House and Republican Senate had haggled in special session over relief for the State's 560,000 needy. Last month when funds ran out, a small group of unemployed rolled into Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking by a hand...