Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although when he was a lawyer in Little Rock, many of his best clients were utility companies, although Harvey Couch, potent Arkansas utilitarian, is a better personal friend of his than Franklin Roosevelt, Leader Robinson loyally voted for the TVAmendments to enlarge and improve the President's power yardstick, even more loyally paired his vote to help the Senate approve (45-10-44) the "death sentence" on utility holding companies...
...discomforts incident to following such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack shot) with Harvey...
...other candidates : politics being as sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...
...mouthed, Harry Chandler is a teetotaler, eschews all forms of exercise except mowing the lawn a bit. When the first drop of perspiration runs down his nose, he quits. He has eight children, four of whom work for the Times. He is still at 71 a good trader. A rock-ribbed Republican and great personal friend of Herbert Hoover, he made Democratic Los Angeles pay him well for the inconvenience of moving one block up First Street last week into the fine new Times building...
...last week, having swung through Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, the Merchandise Express was chuffing into the South. When its 3,000-mile itinerary is completed it will have visited 19 important centres including Memphis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Atlanta. Precise dates of arrival were kept secret so that no sly competitor could stage a counterattraction...