Word: mc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote for organized bawdy houses of the white slave trade. . . . Still awaiting the Smith reply, voters were reminded that Editor White in a magazine piece which he sold two years ago said: "Smith has exactly the same faults and virtues as marked Jackson and Lincoln. . . . Because Cleveland, Mc-Kinley, Roosevelt and Coolidge knew the game-the dirty game if you will-they avoided many pitfalls and were able to walk with the children of light much further than they would have walked had they not learned much from the angels of darkness. . .." "Smith took orders from Tammany until...
...then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin's hand...
Another more likely story is as follows: The party chieftains sat up late, all night in fact. They telephoned to Vice President Dawes in Evanston, Ill. He was most agreeable to running again if drafted. His chief proponent, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc-Cormick went to bed believing the matter was settled. She was awakened about 6 a. m. and asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris...
...been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring him to the New York Bishopric, which is regarded as a promotion from his previous station, his peers showed how little seriously they regarded these aspersions...
...trust. At the beginning of the century he became a partner and the firm name became Corrigan-McKinney. When "Young Jim," prancing rich man's son, tripped into scrapes, the partners rescued him and up braided him. Captain James C. Corrigan died in 1908, having named Price Mc Kinney trustee of his estate. To his son he left only $15,000 unrestricted. Millions were in trust. The young man (he was 29 then) continued playing richly about, was sued for "breach of promise" by a Pittsburgh woman, was rescued again, scampered more...