Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, number-two-man of the Progressive (LaFollette) ticket in 1924, travelled with the Nominee on the train, energetic, cordial. . . . Some Montana Indians replaced the Brown Derby with eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard...
...North Dakota, Walter Haddock, the Non-Partisan who became Governor last month when Republican Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie died, received Nominee Smith at Bismarck (the capital), shook the Smith hand, rode on the Smith Special. But he would only say that 80% of the North Dakota farmers were for Smith and that he (Maddock) was for the farmers. Friends said Governor Maddock was being careful for Nominee Smith's sake because he, too, is a Roman Catholic. Others said: "Maddock is out for himself only...
...nine States that Nominee Smith courted on his first campaign tour-listed in the order of their likelihood for him: Montana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado-have 63 electoral votes. Added to the nucleus of the Solid South and New York, upon which the Smith candidacy is predicated-the total would be 222 if his courtship has been 100% effective. Before the most optimistic of the Smith managers lay the problem of how to acquire 44 more electoral votes from the following possibilities...
...last he closed his desk, said was going North on business. A few days later a series of revelations and a contemporaneous series of shocks began. Treasurer Carnes's accounts were audited-no perfunctory audit, this-and Baptists earned that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established...
...honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived...