Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...
...situation confronted the Republican committee members who, general revisionists all, were spoiling to get their hands on the bill, to tear apart the House's handiwork, to frame a measure all their own. Farm-state Senators, Republicans and Democrats, had formed a Borah Bloc on the tariff, were definitely on the offensive and plotting trouble...
...resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against the general revisionists of the Finance Committee...
This reply was too general to please International Falls, where the late Citizen Virkula was not regarded as an "international criminal." Editorial writers read the President's statement and wrote: "Is that all" . . . "inadequate" . . . "It is not enough for the President to 'deplore' ". . . "the President's answer is as full of holes as Henry Virkula...
...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...