Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whilom (1922-25) Ambassador to Ger many, nominee for the Senate in New York, was third of the G. O. P. spokesmen to plead with Missouri. He went at Nominee Hoover's special request. This request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that Mr. Lowden...
...Smith family left Boston after the Happy Warrior had told Senator Walsh: "Only God knows what is in store for me in the future, but I want to put this on record before I leave the confines of Boston?that I never shall forget to the end of my life the reception given me by the people of Massachusetts...
Three halls, jammed as they had never been jammed before, received the Happy Warrior that night. First, he went to Mechanics and Symphony Halls, where 17.000 people risked limb, if not life, for two smiles and two dozen words by the Nominee, and for a long wait until his speech came in over the radio from the Boston Arena. It was after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President...
...star serial feature of Britannia's first issue, "My Life,'' by Benito Mussolini, has already appeared in Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Saturday Evening Post...
...audiences found to their disappointment that this Machiavelli, played by Henry Hull, written by one Lemist Esler (Yale Drama School product), and directed by William A. Brady Jr., was not, as history has imagined him, a murderous medieval wardheeler but on the contrary, a single-hearted patriot whose love-life was unfortunate. An overwritten text and an overdressed cast somehow made it seem improbable, uninteresting...