Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
...Farmer-Laborites nominated Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska for President of the U. S., despite his previous statement that he would lead no Third Party movement.* Mr. Norris reiterated that he thought a third party would be futile and refused the nomination. For Vice President, they nominated a man named Will J. Verne of Moultrie...
...Scouts of America, wrote a letter to rebuke President Floyd A. Rowe of the Cleveland Boy Scout Council, whose idea the cigaret crusade apparently was. Executive West told Executive Rowe that the provincial council had a "misunderstanding as to the real aims and purposes of the Boy Scout movement." The real aim, he said, is to make better boys, not to preach to others on matters of private conduct...
Though such a movement would have seemed trifling before the lira was stabilized on a gold basis, it loomed ominously, last week, almost seven months after complete stabilization was supposed to have been achieved. With Volpi, the master stabilizer out of office, a serious slump might...
...credit resources already strained by the movement of gold abroad, the Federal Reserve stopped buying government securities, started selling them, withdrawing loose money from the market, reducing its credit reserves still further...