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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jabberwocky that is politics in the State of Illinois there issued last week a frabjous thing that was supposed to spell R-e-f-o-r-m but which, upon closest inspection, would not come any closer to real sense than Roefmr or Mrrofe. The letters were all there. Popular sentiment had been convulsively aroused. But the newly upheaved anagram did not articulate intelligently...
Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...
...Representatives Edith Nourse Rogers of industrial Massachusetts and Mary T. Norton of industrial New Jersey represent their home districts, are not Congressmen-at-large. At the New Jersey primary on May 15, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator will be Mrs. Lillian F. Feickert, forceful...
...saints is no more than hinted at by half a dozen effigies. Last week in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Patrick Cardinal Hayes blessed a new altar for La Petite Fleur, St. Thérèse. The altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework of marble chiseled as fine as lace. Five hundred people came to the consecration, which lasted for two hours and which was unusual...
...each day of Holy Week the F. W. Woolworth stores averaged almost a $1,000,000 business. During Easter Eve clerks sold $2,408,555 worth of goods; during the whole week $6,977,268. These were records...