Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As days passed, less was heard about draft, more about miscellaneous candidacies. Thus, U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillette, a Republican, of the inner Massachusetts set, pointed to Charles Evans Hughes as his first choice, to Herbert Hoover as his second.
In order to claim that their plan was really the more economical, the British trailed a red herring across the issue as follows. They stated the obvious fact that a small ship costs less than a large one, and then pointed out that their plan called for many ships individually...
It should be pointed out that Governor Fuller need not choose between pardoning Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and permitting their electrocution. He has also the authority to commute their sentences to life imprisonment or to a term of years. In this last case the seven years they have already served would...
Hankow Purged? There was evidence last week that the so-called "Communist" regime at Hankow was purging itself of Russian influence and attempting to resume the program of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." During the week a pronouncement was made, at Hankow, by Sun Fo...
To friends Mr. Bruce pointed out an exceedingly wide set of "garage doors" opening from the cellar of his residence near Melbourne. The doors swung back, revealing an airplane. Said Prime Minister Bruce: "I got it to fly back and forth between here and Canberra."