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Word: springstead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crowing Collector | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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