Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family emerged in Titusville, Pa. in 1874, when Mary Anderson, whose family had pioneered in the oil fields, married Joseph Newton Pew (Welsh-English-Scottish-Irish, with a dash of Dutch and Palatinate blood), descendant of pre-Revolutionary traders, who had religious scruples against selling Indians fire water. After a massacre of settlers at Bushy Run, the early Pews developed practical scruples against selling Indians powder & shot. These scruples brought trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph...
...blood up. The turning tide of 1937's Supreme Court reorganization bill, the sit-down strikes, 1938's purge campaign, stiffened his sinews. For Governor of Pennsylvania Mr. Pew settled on an undersized, sorrel-shagged, boom-voiced judge from the hard coal fields, Arthur H. James, the Welsh "breaker...
...Representing unemployed Welsh coal miners, Liberal National Clement Davies, M. P. chimed: "It is quite obvious to me that we are waging two wars in this country. The first is against the enemy and the other against the upholders of the doctrine of laissez faire." The whole German press soon screamed at Sir John Simon under such headlines as "NEW TAX BURDENS ON MASSES-PLUTOCRATS SPARED...
...Freckly, redhaired, 100% reactionary, Pennsylvania's G. O. P. Governor James, 56, is the ideal President to many Americans. A coal-mine breaker's boy, a small-town lawyer, a Methodist and 33rd degree Mason, he respects hard work, thrift, the Bible and Oilman Joe Pew; likes Welsh singing, duck-shooting, boiled dinners; wears high-top shoes with hooked laces; loathes progressivism in any form but the abstract. Yet there have been U. S. Presidents of less force than Mr. James...
...school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering...