Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deal, During that dismal afternoon Louis McHenry Howe, the New York Governor's personal secretary and political eyes-&-ears, was waiting in Room 1502, centre of the Roosevelt spider web, when a little group of McAdoo friends marched in.* They had worked for the onetime Treasury Secretary in 1924 and were now ready to help out the onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaker Garner, they reported, was ready to drop his candidacy for first place on the ticket, provided he was given second place. Under the influence of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, flattered with the notion of making...
...Web (by Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press...
...friends in Massachusetts. . . . I welcome their support. . . . I battled hard for the principles they stand for and I am ready to do so again. . . . Your telegram seems to me a bit tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into the field, it became plain as a pikestaff that the Brown Derby was in the campaign up to its ears, that its intention...
...disaster. In a crisis it decided to cooperate with the Republican administration. Relief measures were jointly planned and passed under the protection of the white flag, but now the truce has been broken by Republicans, and the Democrats feel extremely hurt by the ingratitude. But so trapped in the web of events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging the depression. But if cooperation is continued it is perfectly plain that...
...notable user of cotton paper as stationery is Louisiana's Governor Huey P. Long. His letters go out as a cambric-like cloth sized with kaolin, with a smooth web finish and high tensile strength. (The letterhead carries the State seal in blue-a floppy mother pelican feeding her young encircled by "Union, Justice & Confidence.") Explains Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours...