Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home. There was, of course, talk that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently about their Governor and their President; that New York City's new registration was huge; that politics is not an exact science...
...prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business . . . based on principles de structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred were in essence as follows: 1) Liquor - to give the States their choice between a) the present Federal Prohibition or b) manufacture and sale...
...price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
...Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This limousine and many another gift did the Duke of Abruzzi bestow...
...more Harvard men are not wrong Herbert Hoover will be the next President of the United States. A delegation numbering that many or perhaps a few more last night wound its way and snake danced through the major parts of Boston as part of the huge Republican. Torchlight Parade...