Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director of the I. C. C.'s finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated in 1905, he was a stout footballer. A Rhodes scholarship and St. John's College, Oxford, brushed up his rough spots. Last week he was happy to receive the approval of President Hoover, many a politician, many a shipper...
...earnestly, sometimes ably written. Like many another contemporary novel of student life, it introduces toping and lechery. There are observations on the sugar industry (Louisiana State has an Audubon Sugar School) and in the end the hero wins a refined girl ("union of sweet nurtured cane with the rough stock of the wilderness") and is indicated as a potential sugar tycoon...
President Green spoke as no high Federation official has spoken since the rough-&-ready pre-War days of the organization. "The right to work is a sacred right that every government, no matter what it's for. must guarantee if it is to endure. What shall we say of a system that relegates men at the prime of life to the human scrap heap and that knows no remedy for the situation other than a reduction in the standard of living? I warn the people who are exploiting the workers that they can only drive them so far before...
...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
...Scituate, Mass, police found 600 cases of liquor valued at $50,000, arrested three men. Informed of the seizure at the World Series in Philadelphia, which he attended with President & Mrs. Hoover, Secretary Adams smiled. "It is perfectly possible that a cargo of liquor was landed on that rough point," said...