Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a memorable meeting came at last to pass. Alfred Emanuel Smith and Herbert Clark Hoover spent 25 minutes together in the J. C. Penney sun-parlor at Miami Beach, trading yarns, smoking long black cigars, laughing, being good fellows
...publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
...other members of the U. S. delegation climbed the long, steep, first class gangway. Lest anyone should attribute pride or ungraciousness to 23 Wall St., Mr. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lamont, walked the common plank with Mrs. Lamont ; and both smilingly endured flashlights. Since Mrs. Owen D. Young is ill in Arizona, her tall, potent husband, Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, mounted the Aquitania alone, with his loose, powerful stride...
Alert observers who remember all the way back to Jan. 6, 1929, when the King seized his new dictatorial powers, slyly recalled last week that "Alexander the Absolute" was not long since known as "the king who looks like a dentist...
...engaged in politics. . . . I want my country to benefit later by more just electoral laws, by true parliamentarianism and real democracy. . . . But before this can be attained there must be a period of hard work. . . . We must clean up and reorganize the government, which may take a long time, but I thoroughly believe in our ultimate success. . . If I fail it will be I, and I personally, who am to blame, but with my people behind me I shall not fail...