Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Lobby Committee had supplied Democrats with the machinery for discrediting Mr. Huston. Indiana's Republican Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson, a lobby chaser, a Huston friend, announced his intention of summoning Mr. Raskob before the same committee and interrogating him sharply as to his contributions to the association against the 18th Amendment and his activities in behalf of Wet legislation. For months the Democratic hue and cry against Mr. Raskob as a Wet Catholic has been quiescent. Party leaders have tried to forget Prohibition, to weld the wings of Democracy together again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians...
...weeks ago one young culprit, Austin Mills, stabbed a fellow prisoner. Raymond Brown, with a pitchfork. Brown died. His mother sued the State for $50.000. Immediately three investigation committees were set to work. Chief witness for the complainants was Farm Superintendent Peck. Said...
...chin, and wide blue eyes that combined the attentiveness of a scholar, the vigilance of a martinet, the red-veined nervousness of a stallion. Boys, now men. who remember those eyes and the wide mouth that always trembled when it was trying to be most deliberate, know that Dwight Raymond Meigs was a combination of strong forces. "The King." the boys called him, some in fear, some in admiration, few with warmth...
...Raymond Robins of Chicago, oldtime Bull Mooser: "Even the Wets piously declare they do not want the saloon, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. . . . The saloon is simply a place where men drink liquor, even if we painted it white, sold lilies at the door and had Uncle Sam for a bartender...
...Author. Sir Oliver (Joseph) Lodge, 78, white-bearded, hale, once famed for his researches in wireless telegraphy, for the last 20 years has been famed for his zeal, his optimism, in psychic investigations. He believes that his son Raymond, killed in the war, sent messages to him. Survivalist Lodge is not a Spiritualist ; he is a member of the Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution...