Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans are the most lawless people that I have ever seen," he continued on another strain. "I have been following the papers regularly, a murder here, and a murder there, murders everywhere. And if they are not acquitted they hang, two years later. In England it is done in two to three weeks, no longer than the time taken to empanel a jury in this country...
...Reorganization of the Government. This is Smith's one supreme and abiding interest. Mr. Coolidge, whose chief interests lie in other fields, has asked Congress four times to reorganize the archaic and unwieldy machine that grinds out its work in Washington. Congress has done nothing. Smith has succeeded, as single-handedly as any man ever achieves results in politics, in taking the topsy-turvy Government of New York and remaking one hundred and sixty miscellaneous bureaus into twenty-one permanent departments...
...several millions. All this is very pleasant and bewildering for him, but there is a little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit of the living Michael clasp hands, regretfully, almost tearfully. Boswell without Johnson, Johnson without Boswell: fate was kind to Mr. Alger, and is kinder to Mr. Meehan...
...scholarship is given to a member of the Lampoon who has shown marked ability in either a literary or an artistic line. Cox, who is taking up drawing as a profession; has done many pictures for the issue this year. Among his works are the Faculty portraits, the picture of "Eddie" Morris, the well known announcer in the Stadium, and agreat many others...
Lowden, however, did not do in 1920 what he had done in 1904; pick up the pieces and begin again. After 1904 he had shifted his objective and aimed his efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough...