Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington and Jefferson College...
...Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks in the Snow, Lord Charnwood. The Old Dark House, J. B. Priestly. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine...
Heading a contested South Carolina delegation was National Committeeman Joseph W. ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert, whose illkempt figure (he prefers no cravat, shaves seldom) is a recurrent feature at G. O. P. Conventions. From Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, came the two Negro National Committeemen, Benjamin Jefferson Davis and Perry W. Howard...
Alexander H. Stephens said of Tyler's State Papers that "in point of ability they compared favorably with those of any of his predecessors," and Jefferson Davis said that "He was the most felicitous among the orators he had known...
Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer's "devil" on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis...