Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Clark Hoover telephone twice during the Kansas City convention to George W. Norris of Nebraska, the most Insurgent Republican Senator of them all, and ask him to be Number Two Man on the Hoover ticket? Did Senator Norris refuse, and did Senators Howell of Nebraska and Brookhart of Iowa then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek...
...turned reproachfully upon Prohibition's greatest promoter, the Anti-Saloon League, and flayed it as follows: "The Anti-Saloon League is not a party, and it is not even a league. It is merely a group of paid superintendents. The Anti-Saloon League has engaged in a number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would be to back a Dry Democrat who might hamper Smith's progress in one or more...
Racing to circle the world in 18 days, John Henry Mears has adopted the number 13 as a talisman. Reasons: 1) There are 13 letters in the name of the airplane (City of New York) which carries Racer Mears and Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer across Europe and Asia; 2) the 13 letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...
...Haiti's size and importance are the spectacular dramatics of its history. In 1492 Columbus discovered it, marveled at its extraordinary beauty and fertility, bartered beads and gaudy bracelets for pretty gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders...
Baptists to the number of 7,000 drew together in Toronto for the Fourth Quinquennial Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, a purely advisory organization. They discussed industrial problems, militarism, the spiritual rebuilding of China, missionary work, the unfoldings of the Baptist faith in other countries. No serious disputes or differences marked the genial and progressive activities of the congress...