Word: chautauquas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time cruising or maintaining social relations at some isolated post!" A Zero Mile Stone was erected south of the White House. It marks the beginnings of the Lee and Lincoln Highways as the golden stone in the Forum marked the beginning of the great system of Roman roads. The Chautauqua Circuit put on the road this summer the largest number of men ever to test political acoustics from its platforms. Following the trail blazed long ago by William Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher...
...Commoner, founded by William Jennings Bryan 22 years ago, has suspended publication. Since the Great Commoner took up Chautauqua, the Cabinet and Florida, the circulation has steadily shrunk until the paper was scarcely read outside of Nebraska. It dwelt too much upon the past and had ceased to be the clarion call of political battle. Time was when every Democratic editor ill the land kept one eye on The Commoner, while the other guided...