Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful States-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and most of the farm States-the nomination virtually tore the G. O. P. apart and put it together again with new adjustments, relations and elements. Without a very genuine popular demand it could not have been done. The same factor was, ultimately, the fundamental strength of the Hoover campaign. The unity within the G. O. P. at the campaign's end was undoubtedly the result of circumstances rather than management. Besides Hoover's popular strength, which won him the party's recognition, there...
...time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned out of his previous lucrative post as President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies. Since then he has eaten humble crow by accepting the portfolio of Public Instruction and Fine Arts...
...next largest sum was $461.63, which has been owed to the Washington Press for the University Register published last year. The third bill outstanding was owed to the Crimson Printing Company for various pieces of printing done during the last few years for the Council. This included such items as stationery. Two separate bills of $53 and $12 are owing to the University. The first covers the charges for the printing of pledge cards while the second is for steno graphical work...
...have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...
...Night Watch: Billie Dove on the witness stand. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000?Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers, Chicago); Mother Knows Best ($8,000?Carthay Circle. Los Angeles); Excess Baggage ($14,000 Loew's, Toronto...