Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden (G. C. B., G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., C. V. O., A. D. C.), erstwhile Commander -in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, the highest rank in the Royal Navy...
...Franconia (Cunard)?U. .S. Senator William B. McKinley, of Illinois; U. S. Representative Martin B. Madden, of Illinois; Dr. William Allen Neilson, President of Smith College...
Wills vs. Madden. At the Queensboro Stadium, Long Island City...
...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...
...House had overriden. But the game was not over. The original vote in the House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention...