Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting what he meant by "that...
...George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units and members (Some 3,500,000 German-Americans). Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President-Emeritus of Yale University, wrote...
...person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes we'd put in a few votes just to get things going...
...door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport of Vera Cruz a strange streaky red glow...
...football field; thirty-three years have only served to erase whatever rudimentary parallelisms once existed. In October of 1928 the path of each has once more come full circle, and behold, here is the other. The fundamental changes that have overtaken the Academy and the College, instead of making an anomaly of their meeting, lend it a strange and altogether pleasing overtone of appropriateness...