Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toured 10.000 miles. The last days of the campaign were to be spent arousing Boston and New England. Philadelphia and the mid-Atlantic section and finally 45-electoral-vote New York. To counteract the Brown Derby's touring in the Midlands, the Republicans sent out no less a figure than Charles Evans Hughes to St. Joseph, Mo., and Chicago. A speech by Nominee Hoover was tentatively planned for Nov. 2 in St. Louis...
...built up Manhattan Island. The high, rocky, sunset edge of the island has been allowed to fall into the hands of cheap-johnny apartment builders and tenants. It was a natural development, however, because, like the swampy eastern edge of the island, the upper bank of the Hudson was less accessible than the island's spine. Also, because the Hudson's bank is the island's natural dock and shipping side. Wharves, warehouses and railroad tracks thrived there and stretched up the island before society or even social convenience made competitive demands. The commercial coagulation on Manhattan...
...mayoral election had seemed friendly horse play to the Princetonians, but in a presidential election they were not to be trifled with. Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode...
...knew she wasn't selling real British tomatoes the minute I saw her price!" roared Secretary Fullom. "Real English tomatoes are in such demand that they mostly sell for ninepence the pound, and never less than eight...
...Less easily disposed of by M. Poincaré was an issue adroitly concocted by Socialists and Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with...