Word: crackers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play it whene'er he wishes? Will the gates be open to him at all hours? May the Vagabond bring the old woman to keep his fire; to make his tea? Must the old fellow don his cloak and sit at High Table? What will become of his Nut-cracker Man? What birds live in the Tower? Can the Charles, even as now, be seen? Do the Moon and the Stars peep in now and then? May the Vagabond have Alice and Bill the Lizard and the Walrus and the Hatter and anyone else he wishes? Will he, good Master...
...Adjourned pondering the advice of Tennessee's Commissioner of Education Walter Dewey Cocking: "Go to your neighborhood or country store and buy a stick of licorice. Then sit down on a cracker box and talk about the things kids like. When a group gathers around the stove in the community store, they've established the true and original forum. Kids get a valuable part of their education from such gatherings. A successful teacher will take part in them...
Darkly, like water dripping through the grounds in a coffee urn, an idea last week percolated through the minds of professional G. O. Politicians: Franklin Roosevelt's press conference declaration for centralized Federal control of business (TIME, June 10) would somehow make them a cracker jack issue for 1936. On one of his cross-country pilgrimages to Republican shrines, Herbert Clark Hoover snatched at it like a starving man snatching at a crust of bread. At Des Moines, in his native Iowa, he asked the graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure...
...with Publisher Howell's job as national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays last week was Governor Talmadge's rude seizure of the Democratic National Committeemanship left vacant by Editor Cohen's death...
Then Governor Talmadge did something he had not dared do before-took a personal crack at President Roosevelt. His cracker...