Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House seven congressional leaders for an extraordinary conference. In the cool of the evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
...being closely eyed by many a potent fellow Democrat as a possible presidential nominee three years hence. Last fortnight the Democracy dined at the capital in the name of harmony. The orators mentioned no names as 1932 candidates but among the diners one name was persistently whispered back and forth-Owen D. Young. He had, all admitted, done a great thing at Paris-a thing which could surely be dramatized for use in party politics...
...over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer...
...joined the hunt but followed an idea of their own. They knew that the bushes along Potlatch Creek near Julietta make a perfect hideout. They went and looked. Sure enough, there lay four men asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while Seattle George was laying...
...this feeling that he goes to the trouble of bringing his family back to Cambridge. Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...