Word: steiwer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Gun, Smiling hugely with arms upraised, Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon stepped to the rostrum for the Keynote speech. His mouth opened and he discharged, like a blunderbus, in all directions. Once in mid-speech the amplifiers went dead. His booming voice became a faint squeak. His oration went on with gestures, without words. His high point came when he quoted President Roosevelt's 1933 message to Congress: "For three long years the Federal Government has been on the road to bankruptcy. . . . Thus we shall have piled up an accumulated deficit...
Thundered Keynoter Steiwer...
...Senator Steiwer went a passing mark for his cannonade but talk of nominating him for Vice President was heard no more. A memorial to him remained, however, in the song sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice with new verses contributed daily by eager Republican poets. Examples...
...depression Steiwer maintained that the need of old fashioned thrift was the most important...
...Steiwer's address climaxed a day of important developments here. Governor Alf Landon's bandwagon, temporarily halted by the refusal of the big Pennsylvania and New York delegations to pledge complete support of the Kansan, forged head when the results of an informal poll of the delegates taken by newspapermen became known. London was critical with 486 votes on the first ballot not counting many of the so called 'favorite son" states which are expected to switch to him. Horah was given approximately 70 votes and Know about the same number in the poll...