Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...
...presence of the dominant party of Virginia. Nationally there is no Democratic party. . . . They won't even sit down to dinner together. The Old Dominion joined the Union in 1928. I haven't gotten over it yet, I'm so happy! Now I don't like to conduct a losing campaign and I'm not going to. There is always a way if you know how. I know nothing about political science but the science of politics is different...
...Associated Press minimized, if not actually extinguished, the importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never permitted any ecclesiastical despot* to control my thought or conduct. But I am for the Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year...
...State Senate adopted, 26 votes to 2, her resolution which said: "We bow our heads in shame and regret and express in the strongest and most emphatic terms our condemnation and humiliation of said conduct ... on the part of the mistress of the White House and her associates...
...many persons who have hoped that the Phi Beta Kappa Society might stand for a scholarship higher than that attainable by the mere grinding out of course grades, its conduct in the Spring elections has brought a very rude awakening. When there were but two days left until the final announcement of honors by the faculty the Phi Beta Kappa Society met and elected the last twenty-five men from the Class...