Word: mays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying campaign issue: "Raskobism." The election meant the political unfrocking of Bishop James Cannon Jr., who was absent in Brazil when election day came. Governor-elect Pollard called his victory "a warning to those who may seek, for partisan purposes, to revive religious strife." Commented Senator Moses, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman: "The Dutch have captured Holland...
...stigma of political irregularity had been allayed by Mr. Raskob's work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have rankled a suspicion of Mr. Raskob's millions. Men who voted for William Jennings Bryan could not easily accustom themselves to the Wall Street aspect of the Raskobian democracy, savoring of the Cross of Gold, fat money bags and the stockmarket...
...There are those of us here on whom the Sovereign has conferred the most honorable Order of the Bath, the most exalted Order of the Star of India or the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Tonight I speak of-if I may call it so-the most enviable Order of the Victoria Cross, the most democratic and at the same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their...
George Bernard Shaw: "It is impossible to have a state of affairs in which one person may shoot another and then allege it was a sort of suicide by deputy. Suicide cannot be permitted by deputy...
...reigns over "The City," London's financial district, which Britons still call "the richest square mile on earth," ignoring Wall Street. The King-Emperor himself cannot enter "The City" without the Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful...