Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positions. At No. 3 comes Mr. Good, of the Midwestern midwestern, more citified than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large group of citizens whose background includes the state universities. Indeed the University of Michigan, where "Jim" Good studied law after being graduated from little Coe College ('92), was quick and glad to claim him, in a sort of for-God-for-country-and-for-Michigan alumni article last spring, along with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde (full...
...fact that the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and other papers had alert reporters on hand during the entire week. And yet, it is safe to estimate that that gathering, including many of the nation's most brilliant womanhood, represented a greater percentage of TIME readers than any similar group of men. Was TIME asleep during the week of July...
...form of government, a deviation from the representative form of government in which the U. S. was founded. The direct primary* was passed because of the influence of Theodore Roosevelt and Senators Borah and Johnson. Among its other results, it has put in the United States Senate the worst group of men we have ever had there in the history of our country...
...bind together." Last week a poster with an illustration of a British chieftain explaining the stick lesson to tribesmen, and with text expounding its application to religion, won the first prize of $1,000 in a "Why Go to Church?" contest. Sponsor of the competition was the "Church Group" of members of the New York Advertising Club, voluntarily offering to attendance-stricken U. S. churches their sagacity in the wiles of selling...
...solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...