Word: nathanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Connecticut, Idaho, and Utah the nominating convention is still used instead of the direct primary. -Mr. Smith's only defeat for the governorship came in 1920 when Judge Nathan L. Miller was elected in the Harding landslide by a majority of 74,000, even though Mr. Smith ran a million votes ahead of the Democratic national ticket. tStandard gold bullion is worth $223.20 per pound. -Recently reorganized under the name of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, with John W. Davis at its head. Its history dates back beyond the days when Grover Cleveland was a member...
...year-old captain in the Revolutionary Army waited to be hanged as a spy by the British. With the rope around his neck, he said quietly: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." The life was that of Nathan Hale, martyr, hero...
...There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools...
...Leon Lipschitz of New York City; Milton Rosenkranz of Union City, N. J., and Joshua Willard '24 of Minneapolis, Minn. From the second year men, those picked are: Joseph Benjamin Brennan of Savannah, Ga.; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio; Moses Samuel Huberman '23 of Portland, Me.; Nathan Leopard Jacobs of Bayonne, N. J.; Louis Leventhal Joffe of Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell of Ashland, O.; Howard Darker Sharp '25 of Tulsa, Okla.; Archie Harvey Siegel of Superior, Wis.; John Harvey Tracy of Chicago, III.; William Charles Waring...
...Coleman '09, Baltimore; M. L. Wallerstein '15, Richmond; Murray Seasongood '03, Cincinnati; Hugh Shepard '00, Detroit; W. C. Boyden '89, Chicago; P. N. Booth '99, Louisville; M. M. Lemann '06, New Orleans; E. M. Grossman '96, St. Louis; Pierce Butler, Jr. '17, St. Paul; D. B. Trefethen '01, Seattle; Nathan Pereles, Jr. '07, Milwaukee; M. C. Sloss '93, San Francisco; R. V. Reppy '05, Los Angeles; and T. A. Knight '15, Dallas...