Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader can get, pointed out that the late Brigadier General William Mitchell had been court-martialed by a Republican Administration for publicly criticizing his superiors...
...Women's South Atlantic Championship. She took the qualifying medal with a 73, four strokes under women's par. She won her first three matches, in each of which her gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final, to Lucille Robinson of Des Moines only when Miss Robinson sank a 6-ft. putt on the third extra hole. It was Patty's fourth major tournament of the winter. In the third, at Palm Beach last fortnight, she lost to "Maureen" in the final, after beating "Glenna" in the second round...
...Loveman comes to us with loud hosannas from the late Sir Edmund Grosse, William Ellery Leonard, Robinson Jeffers, the late Edward Arlington Robinson, and George Sterling, all of whose meeds of praise decorate the dust-wrapper. To be sure, Mr. Sterling offers one sentence which is capable of a double entendre: "There is nothing like this poem in our literature", and that sentence in its rashness is indicative of the critical level of all the other statements made by the others, none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course...
...great flaw of free governments has long been declared to dwell in the distortion of public opinion and in the misinformation of consistently biased newspapers. With the gradual development of a kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl Browder and Hamilton Fish, Jr. political bally-hoo is soon likely to be tempered by more intelligent debates. Ready access to the microphone, its far-reaching power and its nation-wide publicity, make calling an opponent's false cards relatively easy and highly effective. Such suggestions as Owen D. Young made...
...except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned in 1919 to help organize the New School for Social Research. Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become...