Word: trimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
...bearing his name. He was Charles Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was said to have made him 100 times a millionaire. Earl Hansen McCarty, 46, succeeded him as president. Mr. Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then formed his own company. Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co. Scotch-descended Mr. Nash's specialty...
...lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...
Senator Borah last week did just the sort of thing that makes his critics call him a trimmer, and the Insurgents despair of him as a member of their group: Before the Senate were the Tariff Commission nominations. Senator Borah arose to say: "What kind of hybrid monstrosity are we creating by constituting these special commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard...