Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office he had held since Warren Sanford Stone's death on June 12, 1925. The Brotherhood was displeased with Mr. Prenter because during his incumbency the investments made by their banks and other financial agencies had depreciated in value by several millions of dollars. Their Florida boom town, Venice, had cost them too dearly. As "punishment" Mr. Prenter may hold no Brotherhood office for three years...
...runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...
Despite the taboo on politics, observers attached deep political significance to the Smith-Moody meeting, started a conversational boom for a Democratic 1928 national ticket with Governor Moody as Governor Smith's running mate. Should the Democrats nominate Governor Smith, the "logical" vice presidential candidate would be a dry Southerner, and Governor Moody has come into national prominence as the result of his having eliminated the Ferguson family from Texas politics. But attempts to interpret the meeting as a great Democratic get-together failed, inasmuch as neither of the principals mentioned politics and as Governor Moody's attitude...
President, bowing, smiling; snapped Mrs. Coolidge, bowing, smiling, carrying a presentation bouquet of roses and wild Canterbury bells. The President's visit started a boom for Governor Bulow for the Democratic nomination to the Vice Presidency...
Admiral Dewey had not lost the modesty and sincerity of a hero; but the public had turned against him, had found him ridiculous. A typical newspaper headline cried: "Leaders Laugh at Poor Dewey." His boom died. He seldom appeared on front pages until his death. His wood and plaster triumphal arch rotted, was not replaced by marble as originally planned. Today, his Washington house is a dressmaking shop...