Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Nicholas ("Nick") Longworth is the plump and debonair great-grandson of the winemaker in praise of whose golden wedding vintage Poet Longfellow wrote "The Queen of the West."* He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
...admirals' right arm. His predecessor, as chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, the late Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker. Many a grizzled seadog suspected (wrongly) that Mr. Butler's faith tempered his ardor for a Big Navy. Mr. Britten, who learned about pugilism, hard-boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound behind the scenes. The cruiser bill passed the House last spring. Battling...
...will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched out against by hard-headed businessmen who may suspect the job reserve idea of being "utopian...
...lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked. But when the pastor...
...wrestling squad has spent the past week in intensive conditioning in preparation for the hard season whch is ahead...