Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis. The press acquired a habit of comparing the popular demonstrations accorded Nominee Smith to the Lindbergh demonstrations of last year. The Smith demonstration in St. Louis was "practically as great" as Lindbergh's. Beer and the Brown Derby seemed to be the chief attractions...
...Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic oil inquisitor...
With President Hibben's approval, the undergraduates instituted a boycott of Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote...
Since the Mohammedans are perfectly within their legal rights, an extreme recourse was resorted to last week, by Abraham Isaac Kook. Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Weeping copious tears Colonel* Kook decreed a general fast day and renewed mourning by all Jews...
...business man I do not care whether the government is Democratic or Republican. I do think, however, that Governor Smith's ability to deal with the administrative branch of our government is well proved, and his common sense will make him an effective chief executive. I like his honesty and his direct powerful way of stating things, and I do not like Hoover's reluctance to say where he stands...