Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to be definite assurance of your support . . . etc., etc." Candidate Willis professed not to understand that Mr. Maschke had politely dropped him. Mr. Maschke elucidated: "Senator Willis' attitude has changed completely since he first talked with me on this matter in my home in November. At that time he said he wanted the compliment of being Ohio's candidate. . . . Since then he has taken the position that none of his delegates can vote for anyone else...
...University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up as a Third House of Congress-"House of Technologists" was the best name he could think of at the moment. Let business, finance, agriculture, labor, transportation, education, etc., etc., elect their own variously specialized representatives to such a Third House, said Dr. Frank, so that the lines of economic force in the U. S., which no longer parallel what remains of old political demarcations, might cease colliding with and cancelling one another...
...Floggings, gougings, and arson are the special privileges of prohibition's standing army-the Knights of the Nightshirt. . ." etc., etc...
...public display of good breeding, they spent a week of exceptional and most engrossing activity. Aside from their regular business-that of burying bones, digging up bones, barking at automobiles, scaring children, sniffing at feet or tree trunks, running in circles, sitting on their hind legs, biting hobos, etc. etc., certain individual dogs performed astonishing and varied feats...
...Childs Co. ("Go Vegetablewise. . . . ") - $1,496,858. Previous year: $1,683,329. Explained President William Childs: "Unfavorable summer weather, particularly at week ends; the Mississippi flood and New England floods, the Ford shutdown, etc. all retarded the company's business...