Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor's withdrawal. A return to the confusion at Babel was predicted if contractors, engineers, architects, et al. are once more obliged to deal separately with the conflicting claims and rules of union electricians, plumbers, masons, carpenters, steel workers, et al...
...mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly; but that sort of thing can go only so far. She played the part...
Said A. W. Ewing, a Utah delegate: "If Al Smith is nominated, religion will cut no figure in Utah. I assure you that the Mormons as a whole are overwhelmingly Democratic. There are very few gentiles in the Democratic party
Proud of his master, King Al fonso, the Ambassador waxed indignant in answering the charges that his monarch had become the "slave of a dictator [Primo de Rivera]." Wrote...
ALFRED E. SMITH-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3). "Al Smith's face is always reddish. In the heat of a vehement address it becomes crimson. He sweats ... he is all that could be desired of a Governor, even by the most correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate, there is about him just a trace of his trucking days. ... He is discordant, often awkward, lacking in versatility. . . . Tremendously effective. . . ." It is difficult, in writing the biography of a living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided...