Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then he said to me: 'Now really, don't you know that if Al Smith is elected President he will take his orders from Rome...
...barely possible that; the wily Republican leaders are holding back this asset to spring after Houston has nominated Al Smith. Or maybe Mr. Hoover will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...
...prize fight tickets of $5 or more 750,000 A new duty on foreign-built yachts 50,000 Total increases $2,800,000 Net tax reduction $222,495,000 Until near the close of the House-Senate conferences, it appeared that Senators Norris, Couzens, et al. might revive in come tax publicity by a provision making tax returns public documents, though not accessible in every collector's office. But the Senate voted for privacy...
...savagery of the jungle. Out of this is emerging-has already emerged-a new law so hideous in its potentialities as to make one shudder at the possible consequences." So cried Secretary G. L. Hostetter of the Chicago Employers' Association last week, when he learned that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had formed a cleaning and dyeing business. Mr. Capone, quixotically, and so incomprehensibly to many competitors, has been trying to consolidate the earnings of his haphazard youth and establish an estate. Mr. Hostetter, however, considers him only a common assassin. But, companion at arms is what Mr. Capone...
...believes them it is surely reasonable to wonder at the "ominous silence of the American press and pulpit." The reasons for this silence, aside from incredulity, are many. Less because they think that it would endanger U. S. relations with Mexico, less because talk about Catholics would endanger Catholic Al. Smith's political fortunes, than because they think their readers or listeners are weary of grim fancy tales about barbaric savageries, editors and pulpit-holders keep quiet about religious persecution of Mexico. Abroad, where Mexican absurdities have the attraction of the exotic, newssheets have given the Church v. State...