Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling his radio fireside chats to an advertising sponsor, it could scarcely have caused more outraged bowlings than his spring publication list. The New York Herald Tribune found it "so . . . steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner thinks isn't worth...
...agreed that she deserved it, for sundry reasons. Among them: 1) she had lived in the White House two years nursing her ailing Aunt Lavinia, the first Mrs. Harrison; 2) as a Presidential widow she has been a the expense of attending various functions, notably the Republican National Convention of 1936; 3) the Government pensions the widows of war veterans who married long after their period of service. In Manhattan where she lives in a small swank Fifth Avenue apartment with one maid, Mary Lord Harrison said nothing whatever...
Since the existing War debts of $12,779,000,000 would be scaled down to $7,284,000,000 under the principle advocated by Hungary, both the State Department and the Treasury cautiously shied away from endorsing it. Neither Republican nor Democratic leaders were yet ready to risk saying that a dollar in hand was worth two in the bush. Rumbled Idaho's William Edgar Borah: "I am utterly opposed to any further compromise. If Hungary stood absolutely alone, my feeling would be entirely different...
That arch-Republican Statesman-Educator, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, signalized the occasion by announcing to the U. S.: "Step by step, during this 20-year period, Estonia has moved forward toward stronger and more clearly defined democratic institutions. [Estonians are] building their nation upon principles which the people of the United States so fully understand and heartily applaud...
...speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt on the ground that no private concern should own the Capital's airport. Threatened with loss of their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use the field. Before last session's Congress Vermont's Republican Representative Charles A. Plumley thundered, "Washington-Hoover Airport is . . . both a public menace and a national disgrace." Since 1928 a total of 49 possible airports, from marsh lands to race tracks, have been examined, but so far none has been found that is both politically and aeronautically safe. Meantime, various...