Word: deservedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the border states, the name of Cordell Hull of Tennessee came up for the vice-presidency. He was National Democratic Chairman in 1921-1924 and, remarkable yet true, acquired no enemies during that fractious period. As a state legislator, as a circuit judge, as a nine-term U.S...
Actress Eagels is famed for her outbursts of temperament as well as for her brilliant acting. Once, playing on Broadway, she walked off the stage in the middle of a scene because she wanted a glass of water. Her most recent eccentricity had caused Her Cardboard Lover to end its...
From St. Louis, Mo., Charles Augustus Lindbergh winged to fame. From St. Louis have come many able men. Until last week Henry Summers, 23, was not counted among them. Even when the news reached St. Louis from Kansas City, housewives who had known Henry Summers since he wore rompers looked...
The story concerns a remarkably decent young Austrian officer who loses considerably more than he can pay at a game which has points of similarity, if it is not really the common variety, of Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of...
National Lead Co. ("Dutch Boy" white-lead, red-lead)-$4,929,396. Previous year: $9,004,567. Explained Pres. Edward J. Cornish enigmatically: "Serious competition had developed between lead and other metals in lines where lead has for centuries enjoyed deserved prestige, and especially between different pigments used for the...