Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered to Uncle Joe Cannon as recommendation for Congressman Weeks' candidacy for the Naval Affairs Committee. "My God," said Uncle Joe, "We'll put him on the Banking and Currency. That man with those methods will soon wipe out the national debt." Mr. Weeks alone possessed the honor of having one of his big appropriation bills ($240,000,000) pass both houses unaltered...
Perennial Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane touted last week an honor conferred upon himself by the late famed fisticuffer, Robert ("Lanky Bob") Fitzsimmons...
Georges Leygues, Minister of the Navy, accepted the gift for France. He emotionally described St. Nazaire as the place where France "first felt the heart beats of the American people." At the close of his speech, he approached Mrs. Whitney and pinned the Legion of Honor on the dress of the sculptress...
They dined in jubilant cohorts, went to the theatre, to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, to a banquet in Manhattan where they presented a testimonial scroll to North Pole Flyers Byrd and Bennet, saw French Legion of Honor crosses (Chevalier) pinned on the chests of their President, King Woodbridge, and their past President, Lou E. Holland. They changed their name from "Associated Advertising Clubs of the World" to "International Advertising Association," re-elected King Woodbridge president, elected Francis H. Sisson (vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Co.) treasurer, Rowe Stewart (business manager of the Philadelphia Record) secretary. They raised the dues...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...