Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for a plan to enforce Prohibition. Everyone knew, of course, that Mr. McAdoo is as dry as a cactus. The question was: did this minor McAdoodling portend a major McAdoodle, an out-and-out repudiation of the Brown Derby? Perhaps, and perhaps there are other hold-offs, more or less strategically arranged by the two parties. Will Senator Norris plump for Smith in his nationwide hookup? What of Wisconsin's young La Follette: is he pro-Smith or just...
...mighty hall full of puzzled heads supported by tired spines, the British Labor Party's new electoral platform was pegged together and tinkered with, at Birmingham, last week, until it contained the bewildering total of 65 major planks and nobody seemed to know how many planklettes...
...major resolution passed by the Congress was a thoroughgoing 2,000-word affair savagely flaying the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin for concluding their "secret" naval agreement with France (TIME...
...little girls' papa, Major von Hindenburg, only son of the President, was the only male, except a trusted body servant, who was privileged to travel to Schorfheide with Der Alte Feldmarschall and there to celebrate by sitting...
...placed under Mengelberg's guiding hand as a result of the merger last spring of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Symphony- (TIME, April 2). These two dozen transfers have enlivened the old Philharmonic, helped to give it warmth through Mozart's "Divertimento in D Major"; teased the old Philharmonic through Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; listened respectfully while the old Philharmonic read the tonal poetry of Schubert's Symphony in C Major...