Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Pendergast, grand old man of Democracy in Kansas City. Before he was 21 Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand...
...butler to get rid of the beast. But then he has to promise to ride Bountiful, Patsy Ruth's own horse. Panic-stricken he feeds the horse apples and water which swell it out of drawing. She discovers him, tears flow, the race comes. With tremendous will power he secretly buys the vicious Hottentot, dons the girl's colors, rides the race after having disabused Patsy Ruth's mind as to his identity. Of course he wins both the race, the final kiss...
...Older is an anathema. They not only hate, fear and distrust him, they honor him by their disbelief in his sincerity and honesty. To them 'the friend of crooks' is as good as a crook himself. . . . But his friends see in Fremont Older a journalistic knight-errant of superb power, who can never be made to know that he is beaten when it comes to a straight-put fight...
Servants of the people are not happy unless they serve. To stand and wait is not their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such opportunities for service to its late great, but its Spirit of Service operates in spite of obstacles. It was the motive force behind a business announcement of last week...
...Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation...