Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realm of Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans by force of arms. Guardsmen were marched into the city and the vote registry office was taken over by machine-gunners (TIME, Aug. 13). Because the courts tended to interfere with his use of the military in such political rough & tumble, "Kingfish" Long ordered Governor Allen, his office-holding stooge, to call the Legislature of Longsters into special session to legalize and regularize such tactics. Within four days the senior Senator from Louisiana had been given everything he wanted...
...friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning a campaign. Parties in his house, which is filled with trophies from Africa, the South Seas and Alaska, are among Hollywood's most successful. He looks like a rough top-sergeant but speaks politely with clipped military accents. He tries to get Myrna Loy for his pictures and is principally responsible for her stardom...
...blessing of Mr. Farley, not as Postmaster General, not as party boss but simply as a good old friend, Candidate Shaver last week found himself running against eight other Democrats in the primary. Old Dealer Hatfield romped away with the Republican nomination, but Oldster Shaver found rough going, finished a bad second. Polling two votes to Shaver's one, Rush Dew Holt, brightest boy in the State Legislature, took the Democratic nomination, Generalissimo Farley to the contrary notwithstanding...
...dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when the rough sea made it look as if they might have to cut the line, and all a second night. By the second dawn all four men were blistered, spray-soaked and exhausted and the tuna was as spry as he had been two days before...
...Vienna the task of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's new Government was not made any easier by his Minister of Interior, rough and imperious Major Emil Fey, long the stormy petrel of Austrian politics. Testifying at the trial of two of the 144 Nazis who seized Chancellor Dollfuss and himself in the Ballhaus fortnight ago, Major Fey changed his previous account of the dying Chancellor's last words...