Word: rusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indiana. Republican Raymond Springer rode circus elephants in an effort to be Governor. But Democratic Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) Commander of the American Legion, rode the Roosevelt wave, left him far behind. Ohio. Democratic Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry...
Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running...
...poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto; if not, World Without End may make your teeth a little edgy...
Author Sinclair tells of the rise to Success of one Jed Rusher, a Western farmer's boy who dreamed of power, worked for nothing else, insinuated himself into a rich man's family, made $50,000,000 before he was 30. Lulu Belle Macy, the rich man's daughter, wanted to know how babies were made, wanted to have one herself to play with. Jed would not tell her how it was done, neither would her mother, so she enquired elsewhere. When she was pregnant Jed married her. It gave him the step up he needed; all went well. Business...