Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political tradition the Labor portfolio since its creation in 1913 has gone to union men. President Wilson first appointed Pennsylvania's fat, florid William Bauchop Wilson, an oldtime walking delegate. President Harding put in Pennsylvania's stubby, back-slapping James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis who retained his card as an organized steel worker and spent much public time promoting the Loyal Order of Moose. President Hoover picked William Nuckles Doak, a heavy-handed member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
Died. Charles Howard Kline, 62, one-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, convicted last year of official malfeasance; of apoplexy; in Pittsburgh. A florid, prognathous man with a taste for flashy clothes, he was the only Pittsburgh mayor to serve two successive terms under the city's present charter (which dates from...
...same day last week Premier Edouard Daladier received at 10:30 a. m. President Roosevelt's special "Disarmament Ambassador." ever-optimistic Norman H. Davis, and Britain's Air Minister, florid Lord Londonderry. After chatting through lunch and all afternoon, the statesmen shook hands in friendly disagreement...
...Dapper, florid Ed Hill, whose wife and newspaper cronies call him "Bill." is distinctly of the Frank Ward O'Malley school of news reporting. Born 48 years ago in Aurora, Ind., he attended University of Indiana where his English professor would emphasize examples of journalism by pointing to the New York Sun. Hill determined to get a job on the Sun and, after pestering the city editor for weeks he finally did get a "temporary"' assignment, which lasted 22 years...
When the Duke of Manchester's second wife, Kathleen Ethel Dawes Montagu, sued through the estate's trustees to get the Manchester jewels, furs and laces from his first wife Helena Zimmerman Montagu, the florid Duke told British reporters. "My trouble is that I've been a mug, always too trustful and willing...