Word: magnus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Norman Magnus Macleod of Macleod, 90, "The Macleod," 23rd chief of his clan; at Horsham, England...
...Louis C. MAGNUS...
...third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops." The consensus of Malvern audiences was that the second act was a bore, the first and third amusing...
Came the first Congress under the new President - that Congress which first brought the Scandinavian glassblower and dirt farmer, Magnus Johnson, to Washington. Then, Mr. Coolidge's first message to the Congress, the message which dealt with everything in a few blunt monosyllables and proved that he was "safe...
...Disgust" with the G. O. P.'s "lack of honor" in "repudiating" its pledges to the U. S. farmer-John Napier Dyer, Indiana fruitgrower, longtime Republican. Similarly, Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite...