Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preferred blindes. The insignificant from--will hurry to tell Mr. Blank how she had read his verse while a college girls. He will look at her and believe the college part but wonder the rest. And the one from North Hampton will try to engage him in a minor flirtation which will at least amuse her husband and probably send a poet and a Butter and Egg Man out in search of a drink...
...Treasury. Meanwhile the Treasury Department after a conference between Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, and Andrew Volstead,* now a minor legal official (in St. Paul) in the prohibition unit, presented its plans for better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death...
...retort. He thought and thought. He did not stop to consider that many a contribution like that of "Manufacturer" is composed or suggested by many a scheming magazine editor to liven up his page and cause comment. He quite forgot the Crimson's traditional suavity in the face of minor absurdities. He boiled and boiled, and boiled his anger down to a single devastating headline, which later appeared above the two paragraphs reprinted on the Crimson's editorial page...
Thus Chancellor Luther was "sustained" by 10 votes. But there were 152 "abstentions." There lay the rub. Those who abstained were the 131 Socialists and 21 Deputies of the Economic Union, a minor-party bloc. Henceforth the Herr Chancellor must continue to curry favor with these "benevolent abstainers," as he did throughout his first chancellorship last year. The German party situation continued muddled...
...court stenographer in Manhattan. At 23 he was acting as principal of a preparatory school. Entering the service of the state through a minor post-office job, he somehow became stenographer to President Cleveland in his 33rd year. President McKinley made him his Assistant Secretary. President Roosevelt appointed him the first Secretary in his newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. Two years later he became Postmaster General, and at the end of another two years he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. During the latter part of his cabinet career, the great corporations which he now heads recognized...