Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done so. That being the case, he chose to stay in the "regular" organization as an irregular. In 1917, he voted against the War, and was temporarily ostracized. He started the investigation which led to the oil lease scandals. In 1924, calling dissatisfied farmers, radicals and socialists to his banner, he ran independently for President. He got over 4,000,000 popular votes and 13 electoral votes?Wisconsin's. His last year was spent mostly away from Congress, in quest of health in Florida...
After the mystic tree exercises at 3.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the Seniors will march to the Stadium for the exercises there at 4 o'clock, which include the ivy oration, songs by the Glee Club, and the presentation of the class banner to the class of 1928. In the evening the various spreads will be held in the yard...
...French poilus died with her name on their lips, fought under her banner, prayed to her on the blood-stained Marne, before the rain of steel at Verdun and in the hour of victory. After the War, soldiers went to her grave at Lisieux, covered it with their medals and swords...
...lily grows. What if a commercial scheme was parent to a national Mothers' Day? Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
...mass action. Last week, the National Parent-Teacher Assocition mobilized in Austin, Tex., for its 29th annual congress. Mrs. Drury W. Cooper of Montclair, N. J., national chairman of membership, reported that the Association's roll had reached 875,000. She presented the Louisiana delegation with a banner for increasing its membership 274% in the past year...