Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure was William Lorimer, once known as "the Blond Boss of Chicago," whose reception with other Flood lobbyists at the White House last autumn stirred up such an indignant buzz among fastidious citizens (TIME, Nov. 21). For 12 years (1895-1901; 1903-1909), Mr. Lorimer was a U. S. Representative. Then for bribery in his election, he was as Mr. Schafer bluntly put it "kicked out of the Senate." Mr. Schafer roared that Mr. Lorimer, aside from his political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control...
...than airplanes, figure insurance underwriters. They charged Major James Fitzmaurice a 23% premium on his life policy when he began his transatlantic crossing, while 5% is all they charge to insure the dirigible R-100 for her round trip crossings from England to the U. S. and back next autumn...
People who like coincidences were pleasantly shocked to learn that nominee Thomas was born in Marion, Ohio, in 1884, the year that Warren Gamaliel Harding became a cub reporter on the Marion Star. Should the Socialists do any electoral "cleansing" this autumn, Mr. Thomas will doubtless be sung by Socialist poets as a savior whose birth was portentous, if not miraculous...
...occasion for the upheaval was the Illinois primary election. Among the Democrats, nothing extraordinary happened. Their party was out of power and they quietly went to the polls to nominate candidates whom they scarcely hoped to elect next autumn unless Candidate Smith, for whom they meant the State's 58 uninstructed national delegates, can carry all before...
Governor Small is also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...