Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors. He was al ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before but at the same time should keep in the traditions, that the radical work being done in Germany and France today is of little import...
...There were six circuses in the merger: Ring-line; Bros.-Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks, Al G. Barnes (TIME, Sept...
...clock in the morning, when we took turns at sleep for an hour or so up to breakfast time. ... In my first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant all my children, my wife, some of my sister's children, and, on some occasions, my mother...
...Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the hall which they believed were disorder. The fact is that a large part of the noise was created by an individual about halfway down the hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat in the meeting hall was noticeable to everyone. We afterwards learned that somebody had deliberately turned on the steam heat. A member of the local police notified the newspapermen that I was intoxicated. . . . Half a dozen different...