Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
Last week, Vanryn went down in five brilliant sets before the onslaught of small, chunky Julius Seligson, Lehigh sophomore, native of New York's Bronx. Confounding critics of form, Seligson followed this spectacular victory by defeating Ben Grochakoff of Occidental College, Calif., winning the Intercollegiate title...
...number, are composed of one male and one female person. The purpose of each team is to dance longer than any other team. The rules of the contest are few: teams may rest 15 minutes after dancing for one hour; when not resting they must dance, though almost any form of activity more noticeable than a shiver will fulfill this condition. For contestants the excitements of the game are somewhat limited; like horse-racing, its primary purpose is to excite spectators who are interested 1) in observing the eccentricities with which the contestants pursue their objective, and 2) in seeing...
Fifteen companies in natural gas industry in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, to form the Southwest Gas Utilities Corp...
...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 had been guilty of irregularities, excessions of authority, loose management and the like...