Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1924, Senator Curtis took over the reins of Republican leadership. Previously he had been, the assistant leader, busy salving the wounds which Senator Lodge inflicted upon his fellow Republicans. As leader, Senator Curtis, for the first time in recent years, succeeded in closing the short session of the 68th Congress on March 4, 1925, without all-night sessions. He kept the calendar clear, the legislative machinery grinding. Nothing roils Senator Curtis more than blocs and filibusterers...
...Because I object to wasting money in feeding jackals and turkey buzzards of Prohibition, I refuse to indorse, agree with or vote for any appropriations designed to continue this futile farce of enforcing a non-enforceable law and taxing my fellow citizens to swell the volume of lawlessness, depravity, corruption and dishonesty now debauching the American Republic...
There was a lame composition about primary slush funds, entitled "Show That Fellow the Door.' They sang Senator Shipstead's farewell to his Farmer-Labor Party and a none too ingenious parody intended to represent Senator James A. Reed...
Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University...
...Bless all his fellow citizens, east, west, north, and south, for whom he ever was wisdom, strength, victory, joy, and hope . . . Pour Thy spirit upon all Harvard men throughout the country, throughout the world, as they turn toward this place at this time in reverent, thoughtful, grateful, and lofty memory...