Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday. Reached his office about noon. Read mail and dictated answers. . . . That evening, political meeting?mostly Poles, a people Mr. Baker knows well?about whether or not Cleveland should revert to mayoralty form of government or retain the city-manager plan. Favored city-manager plan, though twice (1912-14; 1914-16) Mayor of Cleveland himself. Quoted his political godfather, the late Tom L. Johnson: "If you'll get a tent and talk sensibly to the people, they'll respond?they'll do what's right?and they can always be trusted to do it." Also said: "I don't think...
...Nancy recently practiced the late Emile Cone, whose "better & better" was a form of light hypnosis...
Following the Brown contest in the stadium this afternoon, the Union will offer entertainment in the form of a tea-dance, to be held from 5 to 7 o'clock in the Living Room...
...Jugo-Slavia, the college students themselves enforce a form of prohibition. From their central headquarters in a building which the government has set aside for the organization, the students direct about 20,000 people throughout the country in a movement for prohibition, and publish two dry newspapers. In this work, the young people take the lead, and gradually draw in the older...
...Esthonia, Latvia, and Egypt, further reforms are being carried out by the young people, of which the few college students form a nucleus, Pussyfoot Johnson explained. Throughout all Europe there is an agitation for some form of prohibition. In France and Italy, doctors favor a regulation for medical and hygienic reasons, while in England and Germany, there is a feeling for some kind of regulation as a matter of public economy and efficiency...