Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida last week a Wet wave engulfed the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, champion of Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe...
Urging that sports budgets be drastically pruned, the committee which drew up the new program took vigorous exception to recent policy, declaring that "the tremendous cost of athletics at Yale, as well as at all other universities, is the outgrowth of the nation-wide wave of post-war extravagance." . . . Expenditures have been boosted so high that the committee has been forced to figure out ways in which the Athletic Association's debt can be liquidated by 1935. The retrenchment, however, is not merely financial. The committee desires also to defiate the present football ballyhoo. . . This is no mere taking away...
...mysteriously perennial, offering for sale pictures of pop-eyed Frankensteins coming out of green mists after white-robed young ladies at confirmation class. Present too were the unconscious eccentrics, formidably sincere and industrious, with their paintings of "The Spirit of St. Louis" flying upside down over one smeared yellow wave. Present were all the photograph retouchers, family sketchers and advertising artists out of work, anybody with a couple of pictures and the nerve to stand on the sidewalk in front of them. Present were Sponsors John Sloan and Tony Sarg prosperous relics of Greenwich Village in its famed days. Present...
...resubmission" proposal announced by Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported by the press and public reaction to the high spots of the new tax law. That the widely advertised "influential repeal element" at the convention posseses enough strength to alter the submission plank seems unlikely, but it is a question which...
...looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation committee which was about to wave at him. His friends proved a loyal group, wildly cheering his cheapest sallies, hissing & booing his inquisitor. Outside was an admiring multitude who really would not care if it were proved that "Jimmy" had stolen the Brooklyn Bridge...