Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 38 years ago, a young man from Vermilion County, Ill., just graduated from DePauw University, went up to Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When...
...Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week asked the Senate to confirm. Honest man though Secretary West may be, his past affiliations and investments could not have been more provoking to Senatorial sensibilities. In an atmosphere still surcharged with the Interior Department (oil) scandals of the Harding era and lately recharged by outcries against the so-called Power Trust, it looked very much as though...
...sick, sick man for some time has been Delaware's T. Coleman du Pont. Last year he had to have his larynx removed. Last month his doctors told him they thought he would be well enough to take his seat with the rest of the Senators when Congress met. But he was not so able, so last week he wrote two letters-one to Vice President Dawes, one to Governor Robinson of Delaware-resigning. Thus ended a Senate career which began seven years ago by appointment and was continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator...
...succeed Mr. du Pont in the Senate, Governor Robinson appointed Daniel O. Hastings, 54, onetime Delaware Secretary of State and Supreme Court justice, a man well acquainted with the du Pont interests...
...Cleveland, Judge Harrison W. Ewing, a rather lean, idealistic-looking married man, looked upon two applicants for divorce and refused their request. Then he said: "I shall not allow you to impose more children upon yourselves or upon society. ... I impose upon you three years of birth control." And then he added that he would help them get a divorce after three years, if they then desire it and provided they have no more children...