Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you kindly furnish a definition of the word "stooge" which I see frequently in your columns? I can find it in no dictionary...
...Word went around that an advertising representative of American Tobacco Co. had persuaded ten U. S. Senators to endorse Lucky Strike cigarets at $1,000 an endorsement. Newshawks scurried here & there buttonholing Senators to pin the story down. They made a lucky strike when they ran into North Carolina's Reynolds. Senator Reynolds, never one to hide his light under a bushel, admitted that he had endorsed Lucky Strikes, collected $1,000. Newshawks were surprised for two reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could...
...Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive over Judiciary was again asserted when Governor...
Belittled Communist Gallacher: "There is a complete lack of confidence in the present monarch. . . . You have not only had the abdication of a monarch who had been presented as the last word in an Ideal Man, but you have now got a Monarch that no one is sure of at all. . . . His Majesty's Government are only concerned with profits, and so long as the King assisted them in keeping profits going they kept the King. . . . The members of this House are playing with themselves in thinking they can continue to fool the people of this country. . . . There...
...courses offered by the University undergoes certain changes every year, and for this reason it is doubly important that reliable information about them be published annually by the professors in charge. This procedure would put an effective stop to preconceived notions and half-truths that are handed by word of mouth from one class to another. The Freshmen especially are entitled to exact information about the courses that they propose to take, and there is no excuse for not publishing...