Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since he already held seven of the 13 Cabinet portfolios he might as well hold eight. Soon...
When Alfred Emanuel Smith was a presidential candidate, many a man and woman voted against him for fear the Catholic Church might meddle with the U. S. government. Last week, New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, a Methodist, charged that the church was meddling with U. S. affairs. But it was the Methodist Church, not the Catholic, to which he referred. Senator Copeland charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in Washington were lobbyists; that in 1927 they had tried to influence his vote on a prohibition measure.* Said the Senator in an open letter...
Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...
...College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish ergot might arise from any other cause than his wish to see only the purest ergot used in medicine. The fact that a friend of his, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer, controlled a large portion of the available supply of Spanish ergot, had no bearing on his attitude, he said. Not only...
...protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely to be misunderstood. "An accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified as the special subject for study, and U. S. Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states, one chemistry student will be chosen annually...