Word: upshaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Washington's quasi-tropical sun, blazing down upon the Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years as a holder...
...Dallas, Mrs. Banks Upshaw won a $100 prize for a tomato-can bird house submitted in a national contest, put the bird house in her yard, waited a year for a tenant, never...
...Upshaw, Prohibition...
Franklin D. Roosevelt polled 370, while Thomas came a dangerously close third with 347 ballots. Foster received eight votes, and Reynolds, and Upshaw each had one supporter...
Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...