Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida last week a Wet wave engulfed the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, champion of Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe...
Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...Haven Saturday morning that because of unexpected pressure of examinations the Eli Phi Beta Kappa players would be unable to take part in the contest that had been scheduled. The blue forces have won the last two games staged between the rival orders, and this year the Harvard key men were on edge to hand the New Haven players a sound drubbing. It is believed by some that two key members of the blue nine were lost in the Sterling Library, where they had gone in search of books...
...Agress '33 (W) defeated R. S. Francis '33 (E), 3 and 1; Agress defeated G. D. Key '33 (A), 3 and 2; Francis defeated Key...
...first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously fingered a gold-nugget-studded telegraph key in the White House. At his touch a high speed automatic transmitter began rattling out the President's message in the Capitol library: "I am glad . . . source of pride . . . honor to his country . . . inspiration to mankind...