Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done most for Religion...
Theoretically, the Saratoga might have been sunk before its planes returned, when at last it fell under the guns of the searching Blues, but the damage would have been done; the Canal was "destroyed;" the supporting fleet must have circled the Horn to have reached the Pa cific...
...Club for cerebral diversion. All the action takes place aboard a dirigible, now in a com panionway, now in the observation gondola. There is a professor, a formula for synthetic leprosy, a threat against all nations, an international spy, an adventuress, a leper, etc. etc. The wreck is ably done...
...Manhattan, murmurings over a new opera house mounted to a front-page roar. Confirmed were the reports that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had leased from Columbia University a sector of Manhattan extending from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (TIME, Dec. 31), and that he had done so with a new opera house in mind. But the Metropolitan's directors continued to ponder their selection of a site...
...Hoover party left its island headquarters and motored 35 miles southward on the mainland to Angel Fish Creek. Two days of deep-sea fishing off the Florida Keys were in prospect. Though the actual angling would be done from small boats, two yachts served as living and sleeping quarters. One was the Amitie, owned by Capitalist Joseph H. Adams whose Belle Isle home, adjoining the Penney estate, shelters the Hoover press entourage. The other was the Saunterer, owned by Banker Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, Eastern Republican Treasurer during the cam paign. Banker Milbank was on board...