Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nashville, the Nominee paused for an unscheduled speech, a reply to Nominee Hoover's speech in Tennessee the week prior. He came down hard on the Hoover equivocating over water power and Muscle Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they...
PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...
Shocked London bobbies halted repeatedly, last fortnight, a hard-faced, middle-aged woman who sped up and down Piccadilly in a tiny, three-wheeled automobile. Why had it no license? Why had she no license? Shrewd, the woman spoke her alibi: "It hasn't any license, and I haven't any license, because my car hasn't any engine!" While astonished motorcycle bobbies paced her, the hard-faced middle-aged woman peddled potently on a bicycle mechanism and speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile...
...tell. A Hearst man to the core, he once tutored the Hearst children, was rewarded by elevation to Correspondenthood. Finally the examining Agents became so vexed that they offered Prisoner Horan his choice between being made to stand trial for stealing important documents (penalty if convicted five years at hard labor) or, alternatively, he could go free by signing a paper stated to contain admissions made by him while on the grill...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...