Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manufacturer Irenée du Pont of Delaware said last week: "I have always voted the straight Republican ticket, and I am still hoping that something may yet happen between now and the Presidential election which will allow me to vote that ticket again, conscientiously, this year. But then, I always have been of an optimistic disposition." Mr. du Font's worries -Prohibition, corruption, lawbreaking...
...Leviathan steamed into New York harbor, last week, her skipper, Captain Harold Cunningham, pounded a table to the delight of ship news reporters and roared: "The theft did not happen aboard my ship. It's all a lot of damned British propaganda...
...vowed he never would vote for Smith. Missouri's Reed, after seeming to have quieted down, snapped "I am tired of this rot," and issued a statement which was a transparent attempt to rally the dwindling dry bloc. But it seemed that nothing upsetting would really happen-unless there came a fight over the party's platform...
...vice president and director of a bank which fails. More embarrassing to be charged with gross negligence in the bank's management and to be sued for $1,850,000 by 7,000 depositors. Still more embarrassing to be a U. S. Senator when these things happen. And most embarrassing of all, thought observers, for aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many a year he has managed...
...Should anything untoward happen to William Randolph Hearst, the staffs of the various Hearst papers would be running about like ants, for their morgues contain no biography of their owner. The proprietor has given orders that no biography of himself be prepared...