Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri's Short...
...following constituents of Dewey Short, Missouri Representative in Congress from this district, request that you publish in TIME a short biography of Mr. Short...
...record of Representative Dewey Short is as follows...
Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...House Dewey Short has an almost model anti-New Deal voting record (only major New Deal legislation he has voted for: Social Security...