Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith. Up to the end of last week, 74 delegates had been chosen for the Democratic convention, including Idaho's eight, Louisiana's 20, Minnesota's 24, New Hampshire's eight, Alaska's six, six from the Philippines, two from the Virgin Islands. Each and everyone was to vote for Candidate Smith. In Manhattan it became known that Candidate Smith would formalize his candidacy the week following Easter. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Smith campaign manager. He will run for Congress, hoping to be White House spokesman in the House of Representatives...
...sold out the U. S. farmer to the English. He depressed wheat prices. He killed the McNary-Haugen bill. Besides he is ineligible for the Presidency. He would spell eight years of misery...
...Investigations. Eight investigations to fix the blame for the disaster were under way last week, by state, county and city authorities. Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles said: "Los Angeles cannot restore the lives lost, but the damages should be paid. . . . We of Los Angeles must face the responsibility." Fruit growers and ranchers, bitter, agreed with the mayor...
...Ripley began drawing "Believe It or Not" eight years ago in the old New York Globe. Today, he employs a linguist, two readers, a secretary; receives an average of 1,000 letters a week. He has traveled in 53 countries in search of material. Simon & Schuster will soon publish "Believe It or Not" in book form...
...what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America. There are no recitations or lectures; there are no cuts; instead, the student faces a definite eight-hour day; four hours of mental work, two of manual work, two of physical education. The result of this system is intended to be the abolition of the gulf between professor and student; the establishment of true democracy among the entire college body; and active instead of a passive student...