Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's champion of silver was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, of U. S. aristocracy. His mother, Catherine Key Pittman, was of the Marshalls of Virginia, and descendant of Francis Scott Key; his father, William Buckner Pittman, had as ancestors the Pittmans of North Carolina, the Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom...
...years after going through both the Graduate and Law Schools, Professor Taussig published his "Tariff History of the United States," which still is a standard work on the subject. Later came his "Silver Situation in the U. S.," "Wages and Capital," and a series of more specialized works...
...interlude of cheering, Maestro Walter Damrosch, sitting in a box, jumped up, and tried with husky voice and tears in eyes to sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Willkie finished his speech. The crowd rose to the national anthem, while the spotlight held their candidate in its silver glare...
...Ohio's Diesel-smooth Republican machine is reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...
...should get the glory. The notion was Henry Ford's: that man should go back to the land, that the use of agricultural products in industry should be multiplied. The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown...