Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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List. President Fleming had no monopoly on good temper. Off the convention floor the delegates were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers...
...preserve the eternal verities. Such a proposal is stimulating, particularly now, when everyone is sifting every eternal verity to see whether it is a Republican eternal verity or a Democratic eternal verity. We would like to see such a court established, but we are familiar enough with the temper of mankind not to place too much confidence in it. The world already has access to the collected wisdom of its seers. But prefers to live by its inherited folly. This government, for example, has unlimited opportunity to examine into the eternal treacheries of war; yet it has dispatched four battleships...
...given to a stanch New Dealer, Representative Edward C. Moran. As the State's ablest Democratic vote-getter, however, patronage was returned to him last spring when he agreed to run for the Senate against Republican Senator Wallace H. White. Because shrewd Governor Brann well knew the temper of his conservative State and counted on many a Republican vote, no famed New Dealers went up from Washington to help his fight. But into Maine did flock such Party orators as Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle, onetime American Legion National Commander Louis Johnson...
...that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration has been for four years giving lip service to security and welfare, and today no life insurance policy is secure...
Divorced. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling, 71, last of the five founding brothers; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: nagging, "an ungovernable temper...