Word: joneses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watson, and not upon the more Hooveresque candidate. Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington. Senator Watson is 64. Two-thirds of his lifetime has been devoted to politics. The measure of his greatness is that if one were asked to pick a man in Washington who best typifies the popular...
(3 of 4) the Prohibition Amendment. Hastily the press consulted the Association, but the Association did not know that Mr. Lamont had left its ranks. Mr. Lamont, asked by the press, said that he had resigned "sometime within the last six months." Later he said that a friend had once...
Class of 1930: F. A. Abrahamson, C. H. Curtis, S. A. Di Pietro, A. L. Durkee, S. S. Ganick, Jacob Ginsberg, H. M. Jones, F. J. Mardulier, R. B. Pieree, G. A. Reed, C. H. Wells and J. S. Wintringham.
1) An act, drawn by Senator Jones of Washington, to increase the penalties for Volstead violations. Congress wanted to punish habitual violators more memorably than at present, and a peculiar phrase was inserted in the act instructing judges to "discriminate." The rest of the act was also peculiar, because:
The incidental sketches of herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes...