Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, North Dakota insurgent. Reason: "A great friend and benefactor of agriculture...
...Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, resigned leader of the North Carolina Democracy, announced that he would not vote for Nominee Smith -nor for Nominee Hoover...
...even to pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself...
...Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...
Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...