Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Daily News, retold an historic remark uttered in the winter of 1920 by President-elect Harding to his private secretary, George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...
That was the last of it-until he leaves the Governorship on Jan. 1. He took satisfaction from his popular vote. "There's only one man in this country who got more votes for the Presidency than I did this year...
...record, a Republican Legislature began at once to prepare embarrassing features. The chief plan was to pass a State prohibition act, like the one Governor Smith got repealed, and dare Governor Roosevelt to veto it. That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election...
...Gilligan '31, and S.C. Batchelder '31, first string backfield substitutes, will feature in the change. Both of these men have shown ability in throwing and receiving passes and are rated as the two leading passers on the squad. In the Lehigh encounter, Gilligan made several accurate aerial thrusts and got the ball off while on the dead...
Young Love. She was the little girl who got wet in Orphans of the Storm and wore an arresting white dress in Nell Gwynne. That has nothing to do with a play called Young Love which opened in Manhattan last week, except that Dorothy Gish, 30, is back on the stage playing opposite her husband, James Rennie, and Lillian Gish is still in the movies and still unmarried...