Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit. By the narrowest of margins Charles Bowles, Dry Protestant, Ku Klux Klandidate, defeated John W. Smith, Wet Catholic, for Mayor...
...holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it had been since last November when some 160,000 voters in Virginia supported men who approved of John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and intimate friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Square is a dignified and cerebral romance based on the Bergsonian-Einsteinian notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back...
Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
...Engaged. John Marshall Budd, Yale senior, son of Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Ry., and Frances, daughter of Stanley Hale Bullard (Bridgeport manufacturer) ; at Fairfield, Conn...