Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treats with 12 states whose laws contain some provision for absentee registration. These states are Illinois, Iowa, Kentuoky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The laws of Alabama, Miohigan, Mississippi, and New York were printed in a former article; the laws of Arisona and California will not appear because the closing dates for absentee registration in those states have passed...
...scouring the country for a woman lawyer to put into his sub-Cabinet, President Harding heard about Mrs. Willebrandt in such glowing terms as only California's Senator Hiram Johnson knows how to use. President Harding feared she was "too young" (32 years) but appointed...
...warmest ambition is to return to a Federal judgeship in California. If Nominee Hoover is elected, she may get the appointment. That the Senate would confirm her is less certain, in fact most doubtful. In her pursuit and presentation of "the moral issue," she has been as hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...have prospects of a season without defeat, beat St. Bonaventure, 27-0. Many strong teams bullied little opponents into quick submission; Cornell scattered Clarkson Tech.; West Point drilled Boston University, Colgate smeared St. Lawrence, Dartmouth scuttled Norwich, Amherst gobbled Middlebury, Notre Dame routed Loyola, Pennsylvania clawed Ursinus, California smashed Santa Clara U., Penn State walked through Lebanon Valley...