Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing could have been more fortunate for the Government, for the cause of ratification, for the Prime Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning...
Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...
...Giants" and Young Jimmy Foxx (just past 21) of the "Athletics." Player Ott has made 26 home-runs, is hitting around .324, fields with speed and skill. He is an outfielder, gifted with a rare throwing arm. The "Giants" acquired him at the age of 16, without any Minor League experience...
...Cobb has since retired. Speaker is player-manager of the Newark (Minor League) Club. Collins is with the Athletics as coach, occasional pinch-hitter...
...advertisements. Inasmuch as the advertisements in the patent insides are largely for patent medicines and other low-class advertising, the patent insides paper is somewhat looked down upon. Western Newspaper Union supplies some 10,000 papers, some with boiler plate, some with patent insides. It also prints several minor Chicago papers (including the smaller Negro organs) and various trade-papers and magazines. An electrotype and stereotype mat service for national advertising in country papers is another important Western Newspaper Union activity...