Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgartown (Mass.) politician who was prominent when President Coolidge was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. The President produced his own tickets, despatched young Joseph to Baltimore with his girl and a Secret Serviceman. He enjoyed the game, and was photographed heroically with Governor Ritchie of Maryland. Wary Boston police saw the picture, trailed young Joseph to Raleigh, N. C., arrested him for stealing clothing from Boston stores, sent him to a reformatory. He was no son of an Edgartown politician. ¶ John W. O'Leary, 1st vice president of the Chicago Trust Co., president of the U. S. Chamber...
...Other Democratic Senatorial gains came in Arizona, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma. In these States, Democrats recovered seats, once theirs, which had gone astray in the Harding landslide...
...Maryland that ardent letter-writer, Senator Ovington E. Weller, Republican, was defeated by Representative Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, who rode to victory on the wave of Wet-and-popular Governor Ritchie. Mr. Weller's campaign philosophy was that every voter would like to have a cheery letter from a U. S. Senator. He congratulated mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have...
...Maryland Governor Albert C. Ritchie, Wet and Democratic, was re-elected for a third term. A rising presidential possibility, able, diplomatic, he has few rabid enemies...
...Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about...