Word: rotund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pendergast- One of the best machines in the U. S. is that well-oiled engine with which Thomas Joseph Pendergast rules the destinies of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. Last August this rotund boss got the Democratic nomination for Missouri's seat in the U. S. Senate for one of his boys, County Judge Harry S. Truman. His only obstacle in putting Harry in the Senate was the way stand-pat Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre...
Stepping out on the White House steps after a morning conference with the President, Ohio's rotund Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, a conservative member of the Banking & Currency Committee, told the Press: "We discussed further devaluation of the dollar. I don't think it is necessary now, but it may be in time and I am not unalterably opposed to it.'' He reminded reporters that an Act of Congress would be required to authorize the President to reduce the dollar's gold content below the 50% limit set last year. "I think it might help...
...Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
...late William C. Bitting Sr. was a Baptist minister in St. Louis, a warm friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Never an active churchman, rotund, convivial, energetic Son Bitting specializes in church and religious bonds. In 25 years he has floated $90,000,000 worth. To most of his clients he points with pride. But when he comes to the Methodist Episcopal Church, largest U. S. Protestant denomination, Bondman Bitting begins to splutter...
...little Bardstown, Ky. (pop.: 1,767) last week a local legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...