Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main themes: that he is a farmer himself who understands farm problems; that he knows how to handle Communists (keep them out in the open where they can be watched); that the Administration is bungling the U.S. into war. But mainly he tried to sell himself as a solid good fellow and no highfalutin' Easterner...
...governor of a state in which the political sands are always shifting, he has been a popular success by keeping to the middle of the road. Though a solid Republican, he has taken advantage of state electoral laws to run on both Democratic & Republican tickets, has appointed office holders of both parties. He has also 1) cut the state sales tax from 3% to 2½ %; 2) raised old age pensions from $40 to $50 a month; 3) ticketed $450 million for postwar development; 4) raised gas taxes by 1½? a gallon (over oilmen's protests) to finance...
...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...
After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
From the city there were white gauntlets and a white doeskin jacket; from the Glencoe Club a leather belt with solid gold buckle, and elkskin riding boots. The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede tossed in a Hudson's Bay blanket coat, a pair of Point blankets, a white felt hat and a pair of white whipcord riding breeches. Barbara Ann dressed up in her cowgirl clothes (see cut), posed happily for Calgarians. Said she: "I have always wanted a cowgirl outfit for my very own and I have always wanted to see a real live Indian...