Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very good business man and that is why he is a poor politician. He gets into the papers with his economic pronouncements, but he has no small talk. Anecdote finds him very stony soil in which to take root; he has none of the blandishments nor much of that kind of acumen necessary to politicians. Many men think that he threw away the best kind of chance for the Presidency...
Governorships. In New Jersey a Dry Republican, State Senator Arthur Whitney, was defeated by A. Harry Moore, a Wet and a Democrat. Score 470,000 to 430,000. None the less the Republicans won 47 of the 59 seats in the State Assembly, 18 of the 21 seats in the Senate, and elected a Congressman to a vacancy...
...Chamber of Commerce announced last week that American cities are changing their names more rapidly than of yore, 63 changes having been made in 1920-1925, as compared with 13 changes in 1915-1920. None the less there are still duplicate names: 31 Franklins, 27 Madisons, 25 Clevelands, 24 Monroes, 23 Wilsons, 18 Paris', 18 Genevas, 17 Berlins, 15 Adams', 13 Roosevelts, 12 Tafts, 12 Moscows, 11 Londons, 6 Pekins, 5 Hardings, 2 Brussels...
General Sarrail's official written report of the bombardment of Damascus reached Paris last week and estimated the casualties as follows: Europeans, none; French soldiers, 10; Revolutionaries, 200;* Armenians (killed by the insurgents...
...have felt no ill effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby...