Word: montes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countries like the United States and Great Britain politics is like a great river-occasional floods, but in general a continuous flow. In countries like the Balkans it is a series of cloudbursts. In Porto Rico it is a geyser-spurting periodically. The recent Governor of Porto Rico, E. Mont Reily, left office under criticism, if not because of it. His successor, Horace M. Towner, had hardly come within range of the Porto Rican geyser before he began to be spattered with mud. Politicians in Porto Rico are divided into three parts. Of these, the Unionists are the dominant group...
...Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher and Hoch (Kan.); Ex-Governors Allen (Kan.), Brough (Ark.), Harding (Ia.), Carlson (Colo.), Ex-Senator Gore (Okla.); Ex-Representatives Patrick Kelley (Mich.), Martin A. Morrison (Ind.), Jeannette Rankin (Mont.)-first Congresswoman. Old favorites include Josephus Daniels and William C. Redfield (Secretary of Commerce under Mr. Wilson). Besides Miss Rankin, there will be two other women of prominence- Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen (daughter or W. J. B.), and Mrs. Annie Dickie Oleson (unsuccessful Minnesota Democratic Senatorial candidate last Fall...
...sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again−or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative...
Also University Scholarships to Charles B. P. Aiken of New Orleans, La. (physics); Walter R. Batsell of Columbia, Mo., (history and government); Armand T. Beauregard Jr., of Darien, Conn. (economics); Lawrence R. Blinks of Kalamazoo, Mich. (botany); George R. Burns of Helena, Mont. (English); Edwin R. Clapp of Stanford University, Calif. (English); Harry H. Clark of Waterbury, Conn. (English); Edward E. Euler of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. (German); Roger C. Hackett of Bloomington, Ind. (history); George E. Harris of Greenville, N. C. (English); Huntington Hill of Huntington, N. Y. (history); Luther W. Hussey of Northbridge Centre (mathematics); Henry H. Jacobs...
Also University Scholarships to Charles B. P. Aiken of New Orleans, La. (physics); Walter R. Batsell of Columbia, Mo., (history and government); Armand T. Beauregard Jr., of Darien, Conn. (economics); Lawrence R. Blinks of Kalamazoo, Mich. (botany); George R. Burns of Helena, Mont. (English); Edwin R. Clapp of Stanford University, Calif. (English); Harry H. Clark of Waterbury, Conn. (English); Edward E. Euler of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. (German); Roger C. Hackett of Bloomington, Ind. (history); George E. Harris of Greenville, N. C. (English); Huntington Hill of Huntington, N. Y. (history); Luther W. Hussey of Northbridge Centre (mathematics); Henry H. Jacobs...