Word: steiwer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High point of big, amiable, 54-year-old Frederick Steiwer's eleven years as a U. S. Senator was his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention of 1936 on the "Three Long Years" of the New Deal. Since then Fred Steiwer has been notable chiefly as one of the 16 Republicans in the Senate. Even in Oregon, the memory of his patient services in boosting tariffs on lumber, wool, and fruit and his reputation as The Veterans' Friend have been dimmed by more spectacular political personalities to the point where Fred Steiwer's chances...
Last week Fred Steiwer abruptly released himself from his pledge to remain one long year in the Senate, announced that he was resigning effective January 31 to practice law in Washington with Corporation Lawyer Kingman Brewster and reopen his own law office in Portland. With his wife, son, a daughter, little income outside his $10,000 salary, and few political prospects, Fred Steiwer explained that he could not afford to miss "an opportunity which would not wait until the end of my term of office...
This was bigger news in Oregon than it was in Washington. Because many an Oregon Democrat, including popular ex-Townsendite Willis Mahoney who almost beat Leader McNary in the 1936 elections, was already primping for Fred Steiwer's seat, Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin found the prospect of picking one for an eleven-month recess appointment highly perplexing. The Governor had to step carefully since he is up for re-election himself this year, on the outs with Oregon's left-wing Democracy which has never forgotten that he registered Republican before he retired from the Army...
...went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami, Fla. were onetime Democratic...
...tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant...