Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes we'd put in a few votes just to get things going right...
...James Matthew Barrie, elfin creator of Peter Pan, stood up at a bazaar, in Jedburgh, Scotland, last week, and solemnly informed his audience that on the previous night he had walked hand in hand through their village with the late Mary Queen of Scots (died A. D...
...most of them might be out of jobs. They had heard rumors that Signor Mus- solini proposed to merge all Italian newspapers into a single, syndicated super-news organ, edited by the Dictator's brother, pudgy, tortoise-spectacled Arnaldo Mussolini, who carries on the Mussolini family newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia (The People of Italy) at Milan. As the tall clock in II Capo's antechamber ticked ominously, the nervous editors dropped their voices to whisper pitch...
...French Republic, 1899-1906; Edward P. Weston, long distance walker, now witless ; Gen. Valeriano Weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba in war of 1898; David A. Boody, onetime Mayor of Brooklyn, financier; Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, onetime (1888-94) president of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., whom Owen D. Young and other reverent business men honored a fortnight ago with a celebration...
...John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co.; William P. Clyde, steamship owner; Henry Phipps, philanthropist...