Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a very interesting fight. Smith is going to be the Democratic candidate, I feel quite sure. He seems to have everything his own way just now." Senator William Edgar Borah is one of the few men in public life who says what he believes, regardless of whether it is what he would like to believe or would like others to believe. Thus, and thus only, it was not surprising that the nomination of Governor Smith, Wet, was predicted by Senator Borah, whose faith in Prohibition is so great that last year he went...
...cigaret law (TIME, Jan. 31), a law prohibiting marriage for the physically unfit and a bill repealing the blue law against Sunday movies. Last week the session came to an unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very centre...
...Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, when I slapped my thigh in appreciation, as described...
...election of John Edgar Evans '30, of Ebensburg, Penn., to the captaincy of the Freshman wrestling team by his teammates at a dinner after the Andover meet was announced last night. Evans is a star 135 pounder, capably taking his event in both of the season's meets. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy...
...transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER...