Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another compliment to the man whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...
...matter does not have to be decided until well along in February. By that time, perhaps the Republican Senators will remember, through renewed daily contact, the industry and ability of the tall, rugged, quiet Senator who sits just in front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose...
...Chicago voted with remarkably little violence. Forty detective squads cruised the town. Late in election evening, a youth with an aged roadster parked in front of the University Club and made his muffler backfire with murderous reports. Police strolled toward the sound. The youth & friends drove away...
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...presentation done, Dr. Ives explained to the physicists present a new camera invented by Dr. Clarence Whitney Kanolt of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. It makes pictures seem lifelike. In front of the photographic plate is a glass grating of alternate vertical light and dark lines. In photographing, the camera so moves before the subject that its centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating...