Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Kohler, relatively a newcomer to politics, laid no emphatic claim to party fame, Regular or Progressive. He was, however, left unembarrassed by Nominee Hoover, who was at pains not to take sides publicly when he passed through Wisconsin in July. To Regulars, Mr. Kohler could offer the facts that he helped nominate Mr. Hoover at Kansas City; that he is a Big Business Man-$45,000 per annum salary, master of one of the largest U. S. manufactories of bath tubs, lavatories, waterclosets, kitchen sinks (in colors); that he keeps fine horses, flies an airplane, favors the St. Lawrence...
Richard Evelyn Byrd's flagship City of New York left for two much-advertised years in Antarctica (TIME, Aug. 20.) Before departure he sent hurry calls to complete the paraphernalia of a miniature civilization stowed aboard the vessel. The list made up by Chief Physician Dr. Francis Dana Coman, of Johns Hopkins, and presented to Charles Capehart, President of the Association Against Impure Liquor, read as follows...
While the captains and the kings sipped their tea, pages, pressmen, and cameramen left the hall. The camera lights were switched off. The hall became dark...
...Bullecourt during the Great War an explosive shell ripped out part of his right thigh; a remarkable operation of bone grafting proved effective; after five months he left the hospital. Official dispatches cited him as an officer with "vim ... initiative ... intimate knowledge ... smart demeanor." He was twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal of the British Empire, wears the Croix de Guerre with Palms, of France, the Cross of St. George, of Russia. Demobilized in 1919, he was a ranking Colonel and temporary Brigadier General. At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker...
...high school to get ready for college. Of Yale, too, he had pleasant memories. Not the nostalgic memories of a college hero but the more delicious, spiteful recollection of unpopularity among those whom he has since surpassed. At Yale, Jake Horowitz was not the type. After two years, he left Yale and went to Europe...