Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Right and Left Bowers. Houston, greeting its guests, anticipated no Democratic Mellons, Butlers or Hilleses, hazarded no guesses as to who would be the "Big Three" of the convention. Observers who sought to make the difficult distinction between the country's two major parties, allowed themselves to note that the G. 0. P. had arrived at Kansas City with its business organization intact, while the Democrats were faced with the necessity of complete reorganization. They recalled that every presidential campaign leaves the Democrats with a deficit, precluding all activity for the next four years, leaving leadership in the hands...
...officers, created at the expense of five or more of the existing offices, form a major part of a reorganization of the Harvard Athletic Association made public last night. The new organization will become effective July...
...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...
League postpones settlement of so many major issues, was geniality itself. "The explanation," said he, "is similar to the point of an anecdote told me recently by an American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...
Since His Holiness has repeatedly denounced the Mexican Administration for carrying on "a real and true persecution of Catholics," and since Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles has retorted with disparaging references to "the grunts of the Pope," it was major news last week that Roman Catholics believe the situation to have altered radically. Clearly they pin this belief on the fact that Mexico is on the eve of a presidential election with only one candidate in the field-onetime President Alvaro Obregon. Presumably his inauguration is assured for next December, and last week Prelate Ruiz hinted broadly that...