Word: maverickness
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...back from their elopement just in time for one of the Hallam family's Tuesday soirees. Stella Hallam cannot help despising all her loutish, prying brothers-& sisters-in-law. Old Mrs. Hallam is disturbed because she senses Stella's antagonism. When young Jerry Hallam-defined as a maverick by the fact that he is studying architecture-begins taking an interest in Stella, it looks as though Victor's addled-headed loyalty to his clan would soon produce an ugly situation. He recovers his presence of mind just in time for a reconciliation with Stella, a few sharp...
Secretary of the Interior. Harold L. Ickes (pronounced "Ick-us"), 58, of Chicago, is a Midwest maverick appointed as a reward to progressive Republican bolters. He was recommended to the President-elect by Republican Senators Johnson of California and Cutting of New Mexico after they had both rejected Cabinet bids. The Ickes appointment started loud grumbles among Illinois' Democratic leaders who were completely ignored in the selection...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was sent around the country shouting "Maverick!" at his distant kinsman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that year's Democratic vice presidential nominee. This year, with Theodore Jr. half way around the world in the Philippines, official family disclaimers have been left to the widow and other children of T. R. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. appeared as the White House guest of honor during President Hoover's acceptance speech. Last week Alice Roosevelt Longworth entered her political disavowal of "Cousin Frank." Beginning her reminiscences in the current Ladies' Home (in which Baltimore Sun's Frank...
...waving a crumpled hat, shouting "bully" as much like his father as possible, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. has participated in every national campaign since 1920. That year, campaigning in the West, he flayed the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his sixth cousin, as follows: "He's a maverick! He doesn't bear the brand of our family." In 1924 when "Teddy" was running for the New York Governorship, "Frank" returned the compliment by flaying his remote relative's "wretched record" as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the oil scandals. At that point all social contact...
...Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared to be between Mr. Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each candidate claims to be the true apostle...