Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosecutor Remy, aged 35, now has Indiana's crows in the palm of his hand. Jailbird Stephenson, vexed because friends have neglected to bend his bars, has turned over to Prosecutor Remy a large black box containing many Indiana secrets. One-time Governor McCray, now out of the penitentiary, wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career...
Having spent millions on the place, the people who make Palm Beach what it is were determined to have their own mayor. Names like Stotesbury, Pillsbury, Biddle, Chadbourne, Phipps, Replogle, Heckscher, Seligman, Vanderbilt were attached to mayoral campaign literature for Major Barclay Harding Warburton, handsome society oldster who used to publish the Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and now conducts the Palm Beach branch of E. F. Hutton & Co. (stocks, bonds...
Three socially unregistered candidates opposed, but without reckoning the fact that people do a lot of things at Palm Beach that they would not do at home. The excitement of this new game called Politics so lured idle sunbathers, tennis players and drink-sippers that, entitled to vote or not, they turned campaigners...
Passengers on the Royal Palm Limited, Florida bound, were robbed of their clothing and valuables one night last week before the train reached Atlanta, Ga. They suspected a young couple who got off at Atlanta next morning, rushed into the passenger station after them, had them arrested. Negro baggagemen were amazed that white folk should wear blue pajamas and pink negligees in a public place in broad daylight...
...whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City, then, where in her curved palm woman holds the aesthetic vote...