Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three of the latter were up for reelection. Mr. Cummins in particular, faced Senator Brookhart, "the farmers' friend." But the politics of the situation reaches even further than the election of 1926?it reaches to 1928. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was on hand in Washington, openly advocating farm relief of the Haugen type...
...fabulous salary, reputed to be as much as a $1,000,000 a year. He was sent as special U. S. Ambassador to the coronation of George V. The Czar of Russia twice called him to consult on irrigation and other engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents. His most recent post of note was the chairmanship of the U.S. Coal Commission. He is still going on, although no longer...
...effect of this expulsion was not, as Pashitch intended, to discomfit the expelled Jovanovitch and his friend Raditch, but rather to cause a general anti-Radical reaction, which obliged the 15-day-old Radical Cabinet (TIME, April 19) of Premier Uzunovitch to resign. M. Uzunovitch reformed his Cabinet at once, but was forced to welcome into it Croat Raditch, as Minister of Education. The new Cabinet is thus a completely unstable "dog and cat coalition," like the last Pashitch Cabinet (TIME, April...
...turned to the audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa, the creditable Prince of Miguel Fleta, the attractive, winning Liu of Maria Zamboni...
...Whom wouldst thou slay? Thy master's friend, perchance? Thy master's wife?" asks Masterson. "Nay," says the servant...