Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr., a Mrs. A. Mildred Odalivitch, of Seattle, Washington, last week, begged Mrs. Coolidge to intercede for Mark Dowell, her son, who was sentenced to hang at San Quentin, Calif., for killing a San Francisco policeman. Mrs. Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
...sloganeers eyed with interest the following quotation, reported or invented by Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the relation between Prosperity and Prohibition in the feelings of the midwest: " 'I don't like Prohibition, but I'm going to vote for Hoover because I'd rather eat than drink...
Most political pundits write books from time to time. For example, Mark Sullivan, the Great Predicter of the Herald Tribune, has branched out from politics to folklore with a history of the U. S. called Our Times, of which two volumes are published and more being written. His political observations this year have not seemed inspired...
...Eloped. Mark Hanna 3d, great-grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna ("the President-maker"); with Miss Catherine Backus, daughter of a Cleveland pump agent; from Cleveland, Ohio...
...side of Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 40th streets, Manhattan, on almost any summer day of recent years likely as not you were the object of a penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...