Word: boom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estate, offered for the President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution...
...exploitation. Elbowing through a roomful of Tammany leaders at the 14th St. Wigwam, Nelson P. Cook, a little, old, white-haired neighbor of Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader George W. Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural expert," he may have felt that Vermont farm life had been represented as unduly...
Olvany on Woollen. To Mr. Olvany last week came also Evans Woollen, potent Indianapolis banker, last fortnight (TIME, May 16) advanced as Democratic Indiana's presidential choice. It was suggested that Mr. Woollen came to see Mr. Olvany concerning the Tammany attitude toward his boom. Said Mr. Olvany: "I found Mr. Woollen a fine and upstanding Democrat but we did not discuss politics...
Though some anti-Smith Democrats have attempted to start a Franklin D. Roosevelt movement, Mr. Roosevelt muffled this boom by announcing that he would not permit his name to come before the 1928 nominating convention, was with Governor Smith to stay...
...launch a drive for $500,000 to build a football stadium. "Building this stadium," said one publicist, "is the best possible way to prove to the North that Miami is not down and out, but is still going strong." Skeptics urged that the university yell be changed to: "Boom! Boom! Boom...