Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that most notoriously moist common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...
...resignation last week was accepted by President Hoover. Mr. Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
...country," cried Belgium's Francqui, "is still paying ?3,000 a year to the descendants of the English Duke of Wellington. That is part of the price of our freedom after Waterloo. The agreement was made 15 years later, in 1830. We have paid ?297,000 ($1,443,420) in 99 years, and we still pay, without grumbling...
Mary Louise Guinan ran away from Denver in 1904 with a reporter whom she married and later left to join a musical show. Remarkable for the resonance of her voice after midnight, she became famous after 20 years in vaudeville, stock, and westerns, as hostess of her own Manhattan night-club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker...
...public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster Presbyterian Church is preeminently a choral school where more than 100 men and women from 30 states...