Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams was not once himself "a distinguished insurgent in Massachusetts...
Republican politicians were anticipating the 1930 census with relish when the Senate last fortnight voted 42 to 37 to put all census employes under Civil Service. This proposal, sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner, rallied his Democratic colleagues and enough insurgent Republicans to wreck, at least temporarily, the G. O. P.'s delight in census legislation...
Counters at least one and a half meters high (five feet), out of reach of any but the tallest barflies' elbows...
...half dozen listed closed last week at only a few points above their lows for the year, Mr. Durant was widely rumored as having been pressed for margin and as liquidating much of his holdings. There was a suspicion, indeed, that the Durant shirt, if not lost, had at least been temporarily mislaid. It was also observed that brokers who handle Mr. Durant's stocks have been among the heavy sellers during the past week...
...presume that Mr. E. Waldo Long in his letter to the Transcript, still counts himself among those who excuse their acts on the grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults...