Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within two years there the charms of electricity faded. He returned to Minnesota to enter the State University, to become a lawyer. His practice began and continued with "the greatest law firm between Chicago and the Pacific coast," later known as Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler. Pierce Butler was long senior partner before his advancement to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
...will see, tripping politely up to their august rostrum, a slim person in her early 30's, with bright blond hair and a ready smile. Lola Williams got on in the world by cultivating a small potato patch of her own in a corner of the family farm; later by selling newspaper subscriptions. She reached Washington in 1918, a trained secretary looking for a job. The War Department took her in as a clerk until Senator Curtis found her. Now she is queen Secretary of the whole vast capitol...
...last week, when Representative Fiorello* H. La Guardia of Manhattan took Miss Marie M. Fisher, his secretary for 14 years, unto him as second wife. Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minnesota, a Lutheran minister, performed the service and the marriage was formally announced on the House floor. Two days later Representative La Guardia, swart and peppery, impeached a Federal judge...
...early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...