Word: dan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only pure-bred farmer bull snorting in political pastures. He snorted so loud in 1924 for LaFollette against Coolidge that he was beaten by a narrow margin for reelection. Only recently (TIME, April 19, CONGRESS) he was ousted from the Senate in favor of his opponent, Democrat Dan Steck, after a recanvass of the votes two autumns ago. Being ousted, he promptly announced himself a candidate against Mr. Cummins this year...
Last week Governess Ferguson announced?or her husband did it for her? that she would resign from office if she did not get a majority of 25,000 on July 24, provided that Dan Moody would resign his post as attorney general if he did not get a majority. Foolishly, some thought, Mr. Moody accepted the challenge...
...novel agreement was made last week by the Democratic candidates for Governor of Texas. One of them is Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to succeed herself. The other is her Attorney General, Dan Moody, who has attacked her Administration as inefficient if not corrupt, as husband-ridden...
...faces. After she had read a brief speech, her husband, who was the main attraction, got up and opened with his big guns and then hand-shook everybody. Jim said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that he never had any use for the Klan and that the only issue is Jim Ferguson's dictatorship...
...sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs of his own in the Gaelic that have been "compared very favorably to those of the great Dan Hoyser...