Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from office by the State Supreme Court after being convicted of permitting the use of relief funds for political purposes, who last year on his third trial of that charge got himself acquitted, who last summer lost in the Republican primaries to Governor Welford who led the more conservative element of the Non-Partisan League. Fighting an uphill fight, with Senator Gerald P. Nye campaigning against him, the final count gave him only 97,000 of 271,000 votes cast, but a 2,000-vote plurality which assured North Dakota of two more years of sensational Governorship. In the same...
...show as it stands is very high second rate amusement. In this hour when political frenzy has only just ceased to run rampant, the turbulent election of Andrew, Jackson comes as a welcome reminiscence. Even more acceptable, however, to us thin-blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career...
...outburst of militaristic doctrine in "The Mail" yesterday is indicative of the perverted sense of patriotism possessed by most Mil. Sci. students, except those who go out to ride the horses. It shows that there will always be a certain half-backed, deluded element who are the sheep led by the militarist higher up. Mr. Bertsch states that modern warfare is worthless without the proper, modern equipment to practice it with. He lays this grievous oversight to the American people and their lack of what he calls sense of preparedness. Just what does he mean by that? Of what great...
...Katharine Hepburn set the cinema industry by the ears with Little Women, her employers have been trying doggedly to discover just what elusive factor, added to the stock formula of Lavender & Old Lace, made that picture so sensationally successful. A Woman Rebels represents an effort to discover if the element was the revolt of a young girl against convention. That the experiment is conducted with painstaking care only makes it the more apparent that the hypothesis is faulty...
...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...