Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ukase of the Anti-Saloon League of America and shunted the First Deficiency Appropriation bill, carrying the Senate's $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement amendment, into a basement room at the Capitol. There, behind locked doors, five Senators and three Representatives went to wrestle mightily over the season's major Dry issue, far from the public glare...
...outskirts of each village the royal motor halted and its occupants alighted in mud and slush. Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
...this while the Government serenely concealed the major news that there had been arrested in Valencia, as a chief conspirator, the potent Conservative leader, Senor Jose Sanchez Guerra, who was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before sword-handy Don Miguel seized power by a coup d'etat (TIME, Sept...
Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...
...Major and Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin, of Chicago, stepped on a dance-floor at Phoenix, Ariz., but soon stepped off again. Reason: a marathon dance was in progress and the competitors, watching Mrs. McLaughlin (Irene Castle), felt tired, nettled. Mercedes Gleitz, 28, onetime London typist, English Channel swimmer,* last week broke her engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she had met by mail. Said she: "I have thought the matter over and feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash...