Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle of the thing, the example to others, the patriotic performance of one's civic duty. Unfortunately, it was discovered last week, the California law will prevent Nominee Hoover from casting his vote by mail. He had planned to be in the crucial East on the eve of the election. Plans were changed...
John Erskine, Columbia University professor, musician, novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve). Reason: Prohibition...
Louis Lipsky, on the eve of the annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America, whose object is to rehabilitate the Hebrews in Palestine, last week withdrew as president. He wished to retire, Louis Lipsky asserted, "for the sake of harmony and peace." The day after he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, there emerged, in the form of a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the World Zionist Organization, a report from the committee of judges who have been investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky...
...eve of his party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present...
...Catholics," and since Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles has retorted with disparaging references to "the grunts of the Pope," it was major news last week that Roman Catholics believe the situation to have altered radically. Clearly they pin this belief on the fact that Mexico is on the eve of a presidential election with only one candidate in the field-onetime President Alvaro Obregon. Presumably his inauguration is assured for next December, and last week Prelate Ruiz hinted broadly that he had received assurances from President-Apparent Obregon that better times are coming to Mexican Roman Catholics...