Word: oed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week another White House rule against pests became operative. Prof. Henry Flury, President of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, wrote President Hoover protesting his failure to receive a N. A. O. B. L. delegation (TIME, Aug. 19). Dr. Flury had released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President...
...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
Absent from his august seat was Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
Sued for Divorce. Edward C. Channel, director of O'Cedar Corp. (mops) son of O'Cedar President Charles A. Channel; by Mrs. Victoria Dalley Channel; in Chicago. Charged: cruelty, habitual drunkenness...
That night the Scilly Islands, then the English mainland hove into sight. Journalist Von Wiegand radioed: "Land. It is Land's End. It is England. We have crossed the Atlantic. It is one o'clock in the morning, 42 hours and 42 minutes after we left Lakehurst. . . . A peaceful Zeppelin?over England?the first since the War. . . . All day long we have been trembling with excitement...