Word: stanfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME chronicled (March 21) that retiring Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon was arrested in September, 1925, on charges of drunkenly throwing crockery around a restaurant, that he rescued a drowning woman at Atlantic City last July, that he was sued three weeks ago by two Manhattan modistes for $1,121, allegedly owed for his daughter's trousseau...
...member of the Yale Class of 1930 is responsible for TIME's observations on the subject of Senator Stanfield.#151;ED. TIME...
Most Senators get into the news for what they say. Retiring Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon is news for what he does. In September, 1925, he was arrested on charges of throwing crockery drunkenly around a restaurant. The case against him was dropped, but the incident contributed to his defeat in the Senatorial elections last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter...
...Stanfield, once a millionaire sheep rancher, neglected a bill of a mere thousand dollars? Perhaps one reason is "The Boar's Nest," famed Washington gambling institution closed a year ago, where Mr. Stanfield's poker is said to have cost him some $250,000. In spite of such unfavorable publicity, he leaves Congress with many friends, who admire him as a gentleman of impulses...
Oregon. Bert E. Haney, Democrat, v. Frederick Steiwer, Republican, v. Senator Robert N. Stanfield, Independent. The late entrance of Senator Stanfield, the bad boy of Oregon Republicanism, has injected doubt into the campaign and given Democratic Mr. Haney unexpected hope. Oregon is usually counted safe for regular Republicans...