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Word: electioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's threat of deserting the Democratic party with a million of his stout henchmen, still hangs in abeyance. But if such a multitude are not ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIDES SPLITTING | 2/4/1928 | See Source »

It was with a discussion of "the new social code of the student and its effects on academic life" that Mr. R. L. Duffus in the New York Times Magazine concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT BAD, NOT GOOD | 1/31/1928 | See Source »

Robinson: "Mr. President, I have the floor. I will yield to the Senator if he will courteously address me. . . . I am going to call a conference tomorrow, and I challenge the Senator from Alabama to come before the conference and move the election of another leader for the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

¶Chief U. S. Delegate Hughes continued his brilliant conciliation last week, until the Cuban press began lyrically to hymn him as a "noble and apostolic figure." His work was to hold the U. S. Delegation on an ostentatious par of equality with every other, and to maneuver the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pan-Americana | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

However, Mr. Hughes accepted election as Vice President of the Conference and as Chairman of the Directing Committee. He also sat inconspicuously on the important International Law and Pan-American Union committees. Thus he retained a mobile dominance of the whole Conference.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pan-Americana | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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