Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick to use the Adams speech as a wedge to drive farther apart the two elements of the Republican party was Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, archironist of the Democrats. Tongue in cheek, he prodded and pummeled the achy joints of the Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams...
...uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died...
Theoretically, the Labor party could agree to all these conditions instantly, but personal enmity between Leaders Lloyd George and MacDonald continued to drive Liberals and Conservatives closer together than Liberals and Labor...
...addition to his horse breeding, Mr. Billings was famed also for his yachts, his pictures, and for Tyron Hall, his two-million-dollar estate on upper Riverside Drive. Once, when he had accumulated so many Old Masters that the walls of his new California estate would not accommodate them all, he sold 31 canvases, including eight Corots, for $410,000. In 1917 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought Tyron Hall, gave it to the city...
With the conclusion of eleventh hour student worries the Phillips Brooks House Association will open its annual drive for old text books, beginning next Monday. Under the direction of W. M. Dunn '30, representatives of each entry in the college dormitories will collect all the books that would otherwise become white elephants among the miscellaneous items that serve to burden the book shelves at the time of moving...