Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, in spite of slush, in spite of the hostility of the potent Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
...Pennsylvania, William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat, accomplished the lesser half of a political revolution by entering Philadelphia with a lead of 2,500. But the historic Philadelphia Republican machine swung the election to William S. Vare by some 230,000 votes. Mr. Wilson had carried 55 counties; Mr. Vare...
...attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal Printzkiold...
...invading Bulldog eleven is known to be a powerful one, and it is likely that Captain Hamilton Heard '28, will lead his men to battle against a favored team. Inconsistency has been the besetting sin of the Crimson third-year players all season, but the team has shown the ability to rise to an occasion with flashes of true power that have carried it to victory in the class-league scramble...
...state superintendent of public Instruction in Illinols, has now issued a statement supporting Mr. Guzzallo, deploring the action of the Regents, and demanding the immediate reinstatement of the ejected President. The statement, coming from the strongest organized group of educators in the country, is a fine gesture but can lead to nothing definite. The reinstatement of Dr. Guzzallo is now quite obviously out of the question, and the report as published does not attack the system which makes possible such abuses of an educational institution, nor does it offer any constructive suggestion toward making them less likely in the future...