Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came last week to Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon...
...just as jolly a time on the way to New Haven as they will have on the way back. It is only fair that I tell a waiting world that Harvard is going to beat Yale, beat her thoroughly and decisively. With that statement goes the whole reputation of Joe Forecast and as you all know that is no small thing. For never have I made an error in prognosticating a Harvard game...
...round figures that is. Moreover if Harvard does win she has promised to go with me after the game to a justice of the peace and you can guess what will happen then, Lucky girl. So I am prophesying today a victory for Harvard and a tie for Joe Forecast...
...Danville, Ill., Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor...
There has been such an excess of everything including silence, during the past week that Joe Forecast, as an object lesson to the world at large, contents himself with a few plain words...