Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans. While in Manhattan, Nominee Smith talked with potent Democrats from far and near. It appeared that the chief campaign wizard of the Brown Derby would be the nominee himself. A speaking tour of East Coast, West Coast, all around the land was in the mapping...
...popular pastime will be straw-voting. In Chicago the Tribune, in New York State the Daily News, summoned citizens to cast meaningless ballots in voting machines which were lugged around to make "copy" and gain publicity. The Hearst press announced that it would do the same throughout the land. Remarked, though meaningless, in the early returns last week was a large "straw" lead recorded for Smith in that citadel of Republicanism, Pittsburgh...
Nevertheless, all last week the land reverberated with alarums and Prohibition ceased to be a problem peculiar to the Democratic Party...
Meanwhile the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Eyre Hutson, was taking steps to claim Falcon Island again in the name of His Britannic Majesty. As everyone knows, an island or continent becomes "new land" whenever it sinks and rises again, thus necessitating its "rediscovery" and much other pompous, legal procedure...
...evidence they commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech and announced his immediate intention of transferring the entire spectacle to another state. "In this land of the free and home of the brave," he shouted, "no one ever got stomach ulcers from dancing . . . every participant except the male member of team No. 7 has agreed to follow me to New Jersey tonight...