Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Roosevelt squared off at life afresh and made an announcement. He could get along without his crutches now, he said, though he still needs two canes. He resigned from other companies and from the American Construction council-on which he had served since 1923 is a sort...
Mr. Hoover. While the crucial preliminary to his larger affairs was progressing in Ohio, Candidate Hoover got off a train at Key West, Fla. "I will make no active personal campaign," he said, "but will devote myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had...
"... Let me suggest that Congress ought to pass a resolution memorializing Colonel Lindbergh not again to risk the hazards of the air or the perils of the sea, but to devote his life to leadership in America in the development of aircraft and in continuing before the young manhood of...
Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has...
This particular account of a candidates impressions is in many respects the life-like, but not uncommon story of keen contest, disappointment, weariness, excitement, and the fascination of a newspaper office. But it also suggests another factor which is particularly important in college journalism, and which goes further than anything...