Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Looking ahead four years, one sees few leaders among the Democrats who now show signs of ability to lead the Party out of the wilderness. Mr. McAdoo, back on the Pacific, is already reported to be lining up his forces for a new attack in 1928-the first step of which, it is said, will be an attempt to remove Clem L. Shaver as Democratic National Chairman. In the East, Governor Al Smith has a claim because he rewon his state by 100,000 votes and ran some 900,000 ahead of Davis. In the Middle West, Governor A. Victor...
...public eye. In the election just past, although Coolidge carried New York by more than 800,000 votes, and the Republicans captured practically all the state offices, Al, the idol of Manhattan sidewalks, saved himself with a majority of 100,000 votes. He ran 900,000 votes ahead of Davis. His fame increased...
...Donahey, however, though not so well advertised, performed a feat as great. As he did in 1922, so did he again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio...
...occurred almost simultaneously to thousands of people that the smashing defeat of the anti-railroad radicals left a clear track ahead for railway stocks. Accordingly the Stock Exchange has been deluged with buying orders, and sharp advances have been caused. The public has been out of the stock market for some time, but it reentered with an almost unparalleled vigor and enthusiasm...
...busy week is ahead at Soldiers Field. The University squad is confronted by a gigantic task. It is, however, facing that task in an optimistic, albeit a deadly serious frame of mind. Yale's victory over the Tigers has helped the Harvard mental attitude rather than hurting it. The feeling among the players is that a close battle is certain, and that a Harvard victory is very, very far from impossible. "The policy framed by the maidenly fears of squeamish old tabby cats has reduced Boccaccio to the position in the undergraduate mind of a pleasantly indecent myth...