Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jackass. Disgruntled at their failure to win any tariff victories, Republican troopers took to sticking out their tongues at the enemy, calling them naughty names. First Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania referred to western senators as "worse than Communists." Then Lobbyist Grundy. also of Pennsylvania, called them representatives of "backward commonwealths" (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week came the crowning insult from the lips of swashbuckling General George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
Joliet, Ill. Illinois has two prisons there, the old dingy, dank bastile, in Joliet and the new structure nearby called Stateville, with circular, sanitary, well-lighted cell blocks. Major Henry C. Hill is warden of both. He keeps his two most famed prisoners, boy-murderers Leopold and Loeb. in old Joliet in cramped, dark cells, with buckets for sewage disposal. He allows them one day's yearly recreation, the Fourth of July, unless it rains...
Patriotically dutiful in a political off-year, several million citizens last week trudged earnestly to the polls, cast their votes in State and municipal elections. Major results...
...major result of last week's Virginia election was to shake the hopes of Hoovercrats of holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it had been since last November when some 160,000 voters in Virginia supported men who approved of John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and intimate friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...game, although it is not one of Harvard's major battles, has attracted more than passing interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...