Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Steiwer went a passing mark for his cannonade but talk of nominating him for Vice President was heard no more. A memorial to him remained, however, in the song sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice with new verses contributed daily by eager Republican poets. Examples...
...night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from the Convention. The second cannonade was more effective than the first. The third cannonade was the best...
...over the machinery of the GOP. An immense job of reconstruction was before him. Next afternoon he began work at a snappy session of the new Republican National Committee. Gone from the committee were such old familiar faces as Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Mark L. Requa of California, Frank L. Smith of Illinois. In their places were Young Guardsmen. Without saying boo, the committee elected John Hamilton its chairman. Without ceremony he named an executive committee of 16 to meet this week in Topeka and begin overhauling the GOP. He made a speech...
...miles has always been a hoodoo for U. S. runners. Best time ever made outdoors by a U. S. runner at two miles was 9:10.6 made by Lash in the Drake Relays last April. That he was likely to break his own mark, let alone approach Nurmi's, was a possibility which appeared so remote to sportswriters last week that none of them bothered to mention it in their predictions. Lash had run in the East before, never matched his Midwest form...
...Wissahickon Avenue, starting production in it before the cornerstone was officially dedicated. Visitors were awed by Atwater Kent's luxurious general offices, dumfounded when they peeked through a special window to watch solid gold bars dissolving in acid to supply 14 carat plating for the Atwater Kent trade mark. "Mr. Kent," it was briefly explained, "ordered...