Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These new Republican warriors were called "the Young Turks, a band about 20 strong who had mutinied against the feeble leadership of the Old Guard. For Senators they were young men (average age: 56). As legislative legionaries they were mostly rookies serving their first Senate enlistment...
Marching in the Young Turks' ranks were Allen of Kansas, Glenn of Illinois, Goldsborough of Maryland, Hastings of Delaware, Hatfield of West Virginia, Hebert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...
Democratic Field Marshal Simmons wanted to get back to New Bern, N. C.. where a bank failure, he explained, had cost him every cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young Turks marched into the breach and turned the tide of battle by joining with Insurgent Republicans and a handful of insatiable Democrats to defeat (51 to 34) the adjournment resolution...
Quickly to his feet leaped Democratic General Harrison, proposing, as a sort of reprisal, night sessions on the tariff. The Young Turks accepted the challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks...
...places on the crook of low hills?a sort of natural balcony?around one field. At noon 13 wagons drove past the crowd. Beside the driver in each wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons and waited for the cannon-shot that would start them working...