Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover the pictures of the vice-presidential nominees of the two major parties just before they were nominated? It was easy enough, of course, to predict who the presidential nominees would be, but to pick the right men from the great numbers of vice-presidential aspirants was quite another matter. Congratulations, TIME...
...remedy. For 20 years he had been studying tuberculosis and cancer, just as the neighbors said. Now he had invented a medicine which he called "abjinin," a mixture of vegetable juices and etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were his results that a group of doctors applied for a license to establish a sanatorium for him. The Jugoslavian authorities refused the license; forbade his activities. Such was the report from Vienna last week...
...this matter there were still others to reckon with. Aurelio, son of a sulphur miner, had once saved Salvo from a ludicrous death, whereupon Salvo generously awarded the boy with education, and a position as foreman of sulphur mines. Influenced somewhat by her father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell...
...golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest. Millions of Americans...
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Governor Dan Moody of Texas refused to bolt the party because of what the nomi nee had said. Their attitude was, in effect: "We need and want Smith for many reasons. We can keep him in hand on this Prohibition matter, which is only one of many matters to be considered by the Democracy...