Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidacy even his friends thought he was joking. When his enemies said he would be impeached. he declared he was also a candidate for impeachment. He started to campaign with $12 in his pocket. Leaving Mrs. Murray $1 for emergencies he travelled up and down Oklahoma haranguing the plain people to get behind him. He went up the creeks and through the swamps. He hitchhiked from town to town. Crowds turned out to hear his mastery of abuse and invective. He lived mostly on cheese and crackers. He was ridiculed and scorned but he beat a millionaire...
Appraisal. William Henry Murray leaves no man neutral. To his friends he is a second Andrew Jackson sent to lead the plain people out of economic bondage. To his foes he is another William Jennings Bryan threatening the very foundations of U. S. economic life. In the Murray makeup there is undoubtedly much of "Old Hickory," much of the "Great Commoner" but there is also enough more to make him a distinct political individual. Crude as Lincoln, he has the common touch; active as Roosevelt, he dramatizes public issues;* honest as Cleveland, he makes public office a public trust...
...follows: For president, William Charles McCarty, of Arlington; Franklin Plummer Whitbeck, of Bronxville, New York. For vice-president, Edwin Ide Brainard, of Arlington; Richard Woolen Emory, of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas Ferguson Locke, of Boston; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; David Daniel Scan-nel, Jr., of Jamaica Plain. For Secretary-treasurer, Donald Armstrong, of West Roxbury; Delavan Carlos Clos, of New York, New York: Lee Perot Howard, of Larchmont, New York...
...stupendous a task to discover the whys and the wherefores of the program. Suffice if to say, undergraduate Yale is not exactly satisfied that the buildings do seem better than the teaching. The Faculty is one of the most able in the country, but it is just plain too small. So far our opinion is valid: further we are disinclined to venture...
William Benjamin Bacon, of Jamaica Plain...