Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happiest to attend was rich-radical James Couzens. Like his old partner, Henry Ford, he has no use for banks & bankers or much of anything else in the present social system. Famed for his ability to step on every protruding toe, he got into politics as a rambunctious Mayor of Detroit. He had almost feared that the Committee would not get around to his hobby before its inquisitorial commission expired March 4. But time had not been wasted. It never is by Ferdinand Pecora whom the Senators had employed with funds enough to keep 12 accountants busy 12 nights...
...Roosevelt finished his brief broadcast, handed the lapel microphone to the station manager. To fill in, Mr. Mizer began to describe the crowd scene when the eccentric little Italian stood on tip-toe to open fire. Though Mr. Mizer later declared he had signed off when the excitement began, Miami's famed Pressagent Steve Hannagan, who sweated with the Press to get the story out on the assumption that for publicity purposes any news is good news, said he heard the soothing voice of the announcer report: "There seems to be some excitement here in the crowd...
...investigation, one of the most successful attempts at reform, did not try the voter but worked through the law courts. Reforms must come through the top to be effective, and the surest method is to strike at Tammany's purse. Hence the bankers can at last make the tiger toe the line; and willy nilly he must lick the hand that feeds him or he will not be fed. Only when the future sees present debts paid off will he be able to stalk through the streets with his wonted arrogance...
After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...
Unstubbed Toe. Still having a "glorious time," Governor Roosevelt moved off into the Northwest where he promised, if elected, to call a conference to stabilize silver prices. Another week of Democratic campaigning ended without serious mistakes. The G. O. P. had hoped to tag their opponent as a radical on the strength of his western speeches but so far he had said nothing wild or woolly. Democrats who had tried to dissuade him from swinging around the circle lest he stub his toe last week privately admitted that to date their fears were groundless. Their candidate was "getting away with...