Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed him hoping to put an end to the persecution of Catholics in Mexico...
Religion-"A Roman Catholic cannot be President of the United States." Proof of this statement is impossible, but many was the Republican who said: "If Smith had been a Protestant, he would have won." Democrats insisted to the end that the religious issue did not originate in their own party during the McAdoo-Smith fight for nomination in 1924, or, if it did originate then, that it was fanned to flame again by auxiliary agencies...
...Misrepresentations"-George N. Peek, the farmers'-friend to whom was entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end that the farm vote was held for Hoover by "misrepresentations," "fraud...
With regret operagoers heard last week that Arthur Bodanzky, conductor of German Opera at the Metropolitan since 1915, will resign at the end of the season. Conductor Bodanzky wants his time for the Friends of Music Society, for festivals abroad. His place at the Metropolitan will be taken by Joseph Rosenstock, now at the State Opera in Wiesbaden...
...ushers mistook the pause for the end of the number, admitted more people. Conductor Stokowski sprang off his dais and off the stage. Philadelphians caught their breaths, sat still as pins till he came back, started the concert for the third time...