Word: irs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan Open. When an ir- resistible force meets an immovable body in a golf tournament, the judges are obliged to arrange a playoff. They arranged a playoff for MacDonald Smith and Gene Sarazen, tied at 286 strokes of the 72 holes of medal play in the Metropolitan Open Championship, last fortnight on Long Island (TIME, July 26). Irresistible Smith and Immovable Sarazen proceeded to take 70 more strokes apiece. They were told to tee off again. Irresistible Smith took 72 strokes more; Immovable Sarazen took 72 strokes more. It was a 108-hole tie, a championship record...
...opposes him, is a candidate of the forces headed by Postmaster General Harry S. New, who was defeated for the Senate in 1922. Mr. Watson opposed the Adminis- tration on the World Court issue. ± Former Congressman. *IIncumbent. He is supported by ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge and the ir- reconcilable group. *Clear-thinking Indianapolis banker...
...delegation of Negroes called at the White House and addressed Mr. Coolidge thus through th?ir spokesman: "In behalf of the 15,000 colored Congregationalists of the United States, we greet you as a fellow-Congregationalist in whom we have full confidence. . . . "Particularly do we want to thank you for that great word you spoke at Omaha, the bravest word spoken by any Executive for three-score years. It sounds like Lincoln...
...members may be of the same political party. President Wilson filled the Commission and, because of the long term of office, his appointees were a majority of the Commission until a few weeks ago. Some 8,000 complaints were made to the Commissior; in eleven years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things...
Among those present: Irénée and Pierre S. du Pont (powder) ; George Horace Lorimer (magazine*) ; Eldridge R. Johnson (phonographs) ; Atwater Kent (radio...