Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them with scarcely the deviation of a comma, isn't it about time to release a new one? Really...
...plied him for his version of the affair. Joe says he DID NOT hold McGinity's arms. His story is that he tried to call Emslie's attention to the play and that Phfiester, the pitcher, grabbed the "Iron Man" after the ball had bounced off the back of Joe's neck, on the throw-in by Hoffman. McGinity managed to throw the ball over near third where a fan captured it. Steinfeld grabbed the fan from behind and during the struggle Floyd Kroh . . . rushed from the bench and rescued the ball, returning it to Evers. O'Day watched...
...Hoover week-end outing: A motor ride into the Maryland foothills of the Blue Ridge, where President Hoover got lost on a back road; an inspection of a farm patented in two 50-acre tracts by Andrew Hoover, the President's great-great-great-grandfather, in 1746 and 1748, prior to his migration to North Carolina in 1762. William Zepp now owns the site of the ancestral Hoover home...
...Going back to his office, Mr. Mellon had still to ponder the problem of who should be appointed as the new chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The incumbent, David H. Blair, had resigned. Among candidates for the vacancy were Charles R. Nash of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon's State; E. C. Alvord, Mr. Mellon's legislative adviser; Chairman Benjamin...
...suddenly last week to Happy Valley, Tenn., where a strike of some 5,000 textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...