Word: upshaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right for girls to appear bare-legged in the office?" "Do you favor Mayor Walker for re-election?" Answers received, a photograph posed for, the little man would smile happily and hobble on. It was a new role for him. From 1919 to 1927 he, William David ("Ernest Willie") Upshaw, had been the interviewed, not the interviewer, as he hitched into the offices and halls of Washington's Capitol. Then he was a Georgia Congressman, bitter foe of drinking ("I haven't had a drink in 46 years")*, chief crusader for sober officials." Fortnight ago, no longer...
Correspondents, waked out of Christmastime daydreams, rushed to their typewriters. In dull news season, Congressman Upshaw made many a first page next morning. A few days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every...
...That was how," chortled Newsman Upshaw last week, "I came to be known as the first man who put the fires under Al Smith. He deserved it, fine man though...
...Upshaw conversion came when be was 16. One night he arrived home drunk. Shocked, his mother put him to bed, told his father he was "sick." "Next day" he tells, "I got down on my knees and promised God I would never drink again as long as I lived. I never have...
...Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem Journal, the Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody of Texas. Roman Catholicism, anti-Prohibition and Tammany were, of course, in all Southerners' minds. Governor Moody was more polite than most when he centred his fire...