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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Moses was a prime campaigner for the nomination of General Leonard Wood for the Presidency. In the South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
Potent is the Republican National Committeeman from New York for, above all others, he must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the wives of the money bags. Charles Dewey Hilles is still the New York committeeman. To fill the committeewoman's post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York...
...dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew was cowardly," blurted an angry survivor. Capt. H. O. Bleumchen of the Dodd testified: "The San Juan cut right across our path. Then I heard her three bells [reverse signal]. If she had gone on, there'd have been no crash...
...Quillan uses trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil is in the cast. She does fairly well, but the old college material is so stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog in the mouths...
...taking public notice of the Revolution. On an inside page of the issue dated May 13, 1775, readers learned of "skirmishes" in New England which had taken place April 19. One despatch, unsigned, read: "I have taken up my pen to inform you, that last night, at about eleven o'clock, 1,000 British troops fired upon the provincials. . . . Yesterday produced a scene the most shocking New England has ever beheld. . . . The first advice we had was about 8 o'clock in the morning, when it was reported that the troops had fired upon and killed five men in Lexington...