Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Sir Knight Alfred E. Smith, K. C., F. F. M...
Hunting the Mystery Man, the press followed several likely figures, with "Boo Boo" Hoff's name always to the fore. Mr. Hoff remained smilingly nonchalant. "If they get too hot," he said, "I'm going to do a little talking. And then we'll see what happens to Philadelphia...
...Delaware, a Democratic convention acclaimed Thomas Francis Bayard, Senator and scion of Senators., and renominated him for a third term. For Governor they chose Dr. Charles M. ("Buck") Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania's football coach...
Deliberations by the Assembly were principally confined to stereotyped laudations of the Kellogg Treaty by all hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
...Trade Union Congress, settling to business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...