Word: truman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty or William Scott Vare or Frank Leslie Smith, Republicans all, forget the things that the narrow-eyed junior Senator from Arkansas said to them and about them. Less nimble-witted Republicans used to call him a common scold...
...Although it is no cheaper to subscribe than to buy each issue, and early announcements definitely urged readers not to subscribe, some 4,000 subscriptions were received. Among the subscribers: Julius Rosenwald, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Truman Handy Newberry. Dr. Julius Klein, Norman Bel Geddes, Admiral Arthur Lee Willard...
...TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY...
Republican Truman Handy Newberry, onetime Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt, defeated Democrat Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate in Michigan in 1918. His right to his seat was challenged and became a large political issue. In view of the fact that Senator Newberry was finally declared duly elected, and in view of the fact that he was never charged with personal wrongdoing. TIME regrets having designated him Senator-suspect...
...Carow) Roosevelt, 69, relict of the 26th President, who has charge of the Guild's Long Island section. Said she softly: "The Guild tried to plant in the hearts the spirit of loving service." Close friend of both, and prominent in the convention's activities, was Mrs. Truman Handy Newberry, wife of the onetime Senator-suspect from Michigan and First Lady of Detroit's socialite suburb, Grosse Pointe Farms...