Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappointed candidates for the Glee Club. That sort of "I'll be a sister to you" encouragement helps a lot when the world just will not seem to go 'round, and a touch of sympathy after a while gets to feel like the thump of congratulation. In the end, it may be well to leave the public recognition of good losers to those who first discovered it, and to apply the funds saved in this way to commemorate the man who first engaged in college athletics because he liked to play games...
...choose" statement. His reason for refusing to say specifically that he would refuse the nomination if it came to him, was because "it would not be in accordance with my conception of the requirements of the Presidential office." His determination was to prevent his nomination and to this end he sent his secretary Everett Sanders-"a man of great ability and discretion"-to Kansas City to divert convention votes for him. Wrote Mr. Coolidge (Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan italicized it) : "Had I not done so, I am told, I should have been nominated...
Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody gave up a seat...
...American journalism is to be congratulated that at no time in its history has it been burdened by any kind of 'official' press association. Any government that seriously tries to control the natural ebb and flow of news inevitably finds in the end that such a policy leads to disaster...
...surprised, therefore, when the great restriction plan last December came to an abrupt and official end. Only the Sugar Export Co. remained as a potential marketing machine for use in future emergencies...