Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were but preliminary discoveries. Greater ones would follow, and Col. Charles Hoyt March. Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, prodded his workers on to greater efforts. A stalwart, six foot, 62-year-old country squire, he has a devouring hatred of slickers who sell bad securities. Born in Minnesota, high-school educated, he became a high-powered land salesman with the reputation of selling ''40 acres a day." (Once he and his brother sold 20,000 Canadian acres in a day.) Turning to law he took on Great Northern Railway as a prize client...
...Grandfather Franz had a brewery in Manhattan in 1850; his father, the elder Jake, learned brewing from the time he was ten and started a separate brewery of his own. The younger Jake was also brought up in the brewery, became one of the dandies of New York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand-new 2,000,000-bbl. brewery; they grew to rival Ehret's. Both were...
...stalwart men who are objecting most strenuously to this bill are quite wrong in thinking that it will mean a drastic change. For the simple, unavoidable fact is that the President can start a war whenever he so desires. He has no need of declaring an arms embargo. History has borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
Converted to Christianity by a female missionary, a young negress, armed only with her knobkerrie, the African black-jack, and the Bible, sets out through the jungle in search of God. She questions as she meets them: the God of Genesis; a stalwart Roman soldier; Christ himself; St. Peter; Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot...