Word: felts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President went fishing, left word that he should be summoned if any important news arrived from the Geneva Arms Conference. The President appeared hopeful that Great Britain would recede from its present position (see p. 12) but felt that U. S. representatives had made all possible concessions and would permit the Conference to collapse rather than consent to the British position which would result in expansion rather than reduction of naval programs. "Big Navy" enthusiasts have never found the President receptive to their ideas...
...Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution?an amendment which thus far has been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women in the various states...
...Theodore Wallen, of the New York Herald Tribune staff, big, fat and slick looking? He was so described last week by Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, in an interview published in the New York Times. The Governor, a Democrat, felt that he had been misquoted by Mr. Wallen, who had attributed to him a "feeling" that President Coolidge would be reelected...
...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...stroking old Colfax to victory was in part the silent triumph of his brother Ralph, who dashed the cup and the bad lady from brawny Jim's lips, and told him he ought to keep training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom and a case of mistaken identity, but does better than might be expected considering these handicaps. One Gaby (Virginia...