Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra congressional session would certainly be called...
...Later Sheriff Pecot sent me enough money to pay my railroad fare both ways. But I've raised my price. If I am to hang Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher next Saturday, or any other time, I must get $550 and expenses at Franklin...
...fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
After graduating from Harvard Professor Tatlock went to the University of Michigan where he served as an instructor from 1897 to 1901, becoming a professor there in 1905. In 1915 he left Michigan to go to Stanford University where he became a Professor of English Philology. Later he was made head of the Department of English, a position which he held until coming to Harvard in 1925 as Professor of English. Two years ago he was appointed Chairman of the English Department. Professor Tatlock, as well as holding this position also gave several courses in the field of English...
Into American political life Franklin Roosevelt has brought something of which his countrymen may be proud. In the beginning of his career he fought machine politics and laid the foundation for the reorganization of his party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign...