Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to regain control in a normally Democratic city, Boss Burr Gongwer, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney and ex-Mayor Harry L. Davis, Democrats long at outs, joined in supporting City Engineer John O. McWilliams in a supreme effort to bury the hatchet in the stout neck of Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton. They managed to line up organized labor. Representative Sweeney, mindful of next year's Congressional elections, sang the theme: "The election of McWilliams will deprive Mrs. Hanna of her caviar and champagne...
...Dorothy Thompson: "She is a victim of galloping nascence. Most of her newspaper training was received abroad when she was an active if not particularly profound foreign correspondent. Returning to her native land, she is suddenly filled with the same fervor of discovery as 'Stout Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields...
...week, the track's managing director, dapper Walter E. O'Hara, sat nervously champing a cigar in his luxurious penthouse atop the clubhouse. By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...