Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...only political job he ever held was as a member of the New York City School Board (1914-17). No other famed Socialists, however, seriously contest Mr. Thomas' right to run for the Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year as Mayor of Milwaukee. As head of a non-partisan Socialist Administration, Mayor Hoan has made his city a shining exception in the gloom of municipal insolvency...
...boulders of Dogtown Common, part of Cape Ann near Gloucester, Mass., lately appeared carved legends such as "Prosperity Follows Service," "Be Clean," "Help Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will...
...Service Corp., a subsidiary. On its last balance sheet National Electric showed $600,000,000 in assets. Direct cause of the receivership was failure of Manhattan banks to renew $30,000,000 in loans after reviewing a study of the company prepared over the past six weeks by Stone & Webster...
...Leda, against her better judgment, but for the sake of Blount's possible advantage, accepts. Advantages soon follow. De Long, a friend of dune's, takes an interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband is a power in the House of Representatives. Blount soon begins to find success in politics as simple as rolling a log. Before he knows it he is a Senator...