Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stained since he was 15, Guy Viskniskki first worked at 25? a week for the editor of a smalltown Illinois paper. He attended Swarthmore College, served in the Spanish-American War. In the World War he helped start the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. After eight more years in the newspaper and syndicate business, he landed with Hearst in 1926 as business manager of the Washington Times. Then began his "wrecking crew" fame. From Hearstpaper to Hearstpaper he went, receiving the title of business manager in each place while he worked to change red ink to black...
...musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room to room swapping stories, dickering deals, playing poker...
...guests, regardless of their political views. Most U. S. students who were interested enough to have any attitude at all accepted this gentlemanly one without question. In sizable cities there were usually four or five hotheads who bawled "Down with Fascism!" in the visitors' hearing, but no smalltown collegian so far forgot his manners...
Representative Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama, smalltown lawyer and Democratic wheel horse since 1902. Mr. Steagall is jealous of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass whose name comes first on the Banking...
From thousands of county agents bumping over back roads inspecting crops, talking to farmers and smalltown bankers, the Crop Reporting Board in Washington last week received the year's most important reports. Led by William Forrest Callander, a jovial, blue-eyed gentleman who was a dirt farmer before he studied law at Georgetown, the Board took its secrets into a room high up in the Agriculture building, locked itself in until its tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room...