Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should begin now to impress upon the thoughtless the privilege of the fran chise. . . , Eight million of young men and women are now eligible to vote for a President for the first time...
...State's "bolt" from the convention that nominated Calvin Coolidge to the skirmishers who later nominated the late La-Follette. Governor Zimmerman, prodigal, visited President Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about the Oil Scandals...
...ships were authorized for sale, none for charter. Only U. S. bidders need apply. Bids were invited for any of eight different combinations of the ships, one combination requiring the promise to construct two fast new mail ships...
...Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived at San'a, the Capital of the Imamate of Yemen...
Died. Mrs. May Skinner McAlexander, wife of Major Gen. Ulysses Grant ("Rock of the Marne") McAlexander, distinguished campaigner against the Spanish (1898) and the Germans (1918); in Newport, Ore., following eight months' illness...