Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol plaza was No Man's Land last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage...
...plaza, stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson detailed relays to keep the demonstration going. Those off duty squatted...
Guiding genius of the Prohibition Party is its national chairman, Dr. David Leigh Colvin of New York, thin-haired, blue eyed Methodist who plays politics like a professional. Dr. Colvin warmed up for the convention by addressing a Dry mass meeting. Said he: "The Republican wet plank means that Mr. Hoover is the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold. ... It means a hard struggle to save the soul of America...
Money. Of major importance was cash for the campaign. In 1928 the Hoover ticket cost the party $9,433,604. With Republican purses feeling as thin as anyone's, about half that sum is budgeted for this year's campaign. Treasurer Joseph Randolph Nutt consulted with Jeremiah Milbank, who lined up most of the party's "fat cats" in the East four years...
...November 1924 when she was christened U. S. S. Los Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Commander Fred T. Berry, master, read aloud orders from a paper. Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, commander of the station, did likewise. Then up stepped an orderly who hauled down the commission flag, a long, thin pennant which hung beneath the Los Angeles' snout. The training ship Los Angeles was now decommissioned after eight years. Reason: to save $280,000 a year...