Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farsighted politicians predicted that if Senator McMaster tried to secure the South Dakota presidential nominating delegation for one-time (1917-21) Governor Lowden of Illinois or for Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska while Senator Norbeck favored President Coolidge, the State might see a hot inter-Senatorial battle. But there always remained the possibility that Senator Norbeck's association with the President has been personal rather than political and that South Dakota's two Senators, who stood side by side when the McNary-Haugen bill was put through Congress, would continue their alliance long after the President should have returned...
...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...
...have been in his mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...
...people of Hot Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...
Telephones began ringing in the offices of Mayor Leo P. McLaughlin and of the Hot Springs' newspapers New Era and Sentinel-Record...