Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Past Performance: 1) Smalltown lawyer (Paducah, 1901-05). prosecuting attorney of McCracken County (1905-09), county judge (1909-13), U. S. Representative (1913-27), unsuccessful candidate for Governor (1923), U. S. Senator (1927-39), Democratic national keynoter...
...plenty of rain this year in U. S. economic life and bank vaults are stuffed with umbrellas-$2,500,000,000 in excess reserves. Last week this familiar situation was attacked from a new angle by Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Eccles is a smalltown banker from Utah and so ardent a believer in New Deal theories of credit control that he has often been a White House spokesman on them. He wrote last week in reply to a letter from Senator Vandenberg...
...turn a few thousand dollars of borrowed money into an estimated 65% ownership of a strong chain of five Wyoming daily papers worth some $750,000, a directorship in the American National Bank, the vice presidency of Cheyenne's moneymaking Plains Hotel, a growing reputation as a natty, smalltown, journalistic inventor whose technique is spreading through the mountain States...
Suddenly paunchy, peace-loving Bill Green, who might physically have been mistaken for a respectable smalltown bank president, found himself at the helm of an organization whose constitutional preamble starts: "Whereas, a struggle is going on in all the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the capitalist and the laborer...
Riding on Air (RKO). Joe E. Brown as a smalltown reporter who wins a $5,000 prize, invests it in a shady airplane venture, nearly kills himself trying...