Word: warrenisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness, rain and hail which followed, emergency floodlights were set up. As ambulance sirens wailed, the people of Warren found awful things in the rubble-402 injured men, women & children, and the bodies of 53 dead...
Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
...rain forced dignified Governor Millard F. Caldwell to cut short a resume of his administration. But it stopped as soon as the new man, handsome, greying, jovial Fuller Warren, stepped up. Warren was wearing a frock coat which hit him below the knees, but nobody minded. Cried he: "This is the first monkey suit I ever had on . . ." During the proceedings, an airplane flew over. Its wings bore the legend...
...Warren made a speech which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...