Word: alter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every time you want to change anything you must alter or destroy existing conditions." Then he set up the Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences attend him everywhere. Everywhere he was applauded by the Hearst press, which admires President Coolidge and wants Secretary Mellon to succeed him, but whose owner is Candidate Smith...
...Louis Kerness, Chairman, and Sylvia Hurwitz: Milton Band and Gertrude Band; Louis Horvitz and Fay Isaacson: Tobias Levinson and Hannah Aronson: B. G. Macy and Mildred Levinson; A. Raum and Evelyn Alter...
Adopted unanimously in committee were a Mexican proposal and a Peruvian amendment which bade fair to alter slightly the makeup of the Governing Board of the permanent Pan-American Union at Washington, a bureau which functions between Pan-American Conferences...
When Smith presented his credentials at the Senate door in November, the Senators refused to admit him even temporarily, on the ground that his election had already been investigated and reported on. He begged a further hearing. He received it. But new evidence as he presented failed to alter his investigators' original decision. Then came the final rejection, giving Illinois notice that it must fill the vacant seat in some manner other than the manner it had approved in the election of Smith...
Backed by many a rich man, the Anti-Saloon League fostered Prohibition. Backed by a few libertarians, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was founded to alter Prohibition. Lately, the A. A. P. A. has attracted rich backers (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week, the A.A.P.A. announced "the enlargement and expansion of the organization in preparation for future campaigns...