Word: elys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
...Eli Whitney...
Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...
...death of Maj.-General Eli Kelley Cole, U. S. M. C., left the vacancy to which General Butler was advanced. Aged 48 this month, he is the youngest Major-General of Marines ever commissioned...