Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a man, "any office, even as exalted as that of U. S. Senator," now seems to possess less opportunity for public service than his own private activities. Or so he told Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee last week when the Governor asked him to fill the seat of Senator Lawrence Davis Tyson, deceased (TIME, Sept. 2). Governor Horton, not greatly surprised, next offered the exalted office to William E. Brock, Chattanooga candy...
...must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the wives of the money bags. Charles Dewey Hilles is still the New York committeeman. To fill the committeewoman's post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York's first Congresswoman. The fact that Mr. Hilles, out of political step with...
Nine million, 500 thousand pounds of tomatoes, each of which has of itself only a trifling odor, can in passing through the streets in one day fill a city with appetizing perfume. Chicago, as yet, hardly knows of this. Only one city in the world knows what it means to smell 9,500,000 lb. of tomatoes in one day. That city is Camden...
...basis of his own study of the Indian Civil Service-here exhaustively examined-Dr. Sunderland concludes that "the British government in India can, if it will, set up as its successor an Indian government with every official position in it, from Viceroy to policeman, filled by fully competent Indians, quite as competent as the men who fill the positions...
With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...