Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been talked to nothing, there still remains Prosperity, which is what the status quo is still generally thought to be. Offering to replace the present administration the Democrats will have to offer some one to replace not merely President Coolidge, but the Secretary of the Treasury. Should Governor Smith pre-announce a Cabinet, the man chosen to challenge for Andrew Mellon's desk would instantly become a national cynosure...
...chief change in the pre-convention situation took place in Massachusetts, one of the Big Three (the others are Pennsylvania, New York) whose Republican bosses want uninstructed delegations with which to control the Convention. In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin Tufts ("Peter Bond") Fuller revolted against Boss William Morgan Butler, refused to be an instructed delegate and told the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company that "the next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith...
...Keefe. They were watching white-robed Negroes lead mules through the streets. The mules were attached to creaking floats filled with masked and strangely costumed debutantes, bankers, brokers and cotton kings. Behind the masks were eyes that had an unmistakable champagne glitter, for New Orleans was celebrating the pre-Lenten festival that seven roistering French students began a century...
...sort of chief morale officer to the building trades-to devote himself fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign of 1924 he managed from the confines of a wheel chair...
...assimilation of Alsace-Lorraine into France becoming more marked. Points of progress: 1) The entire Germanic judicial system has been transformed to correspond with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs to 150,000,000; 4) Finally the bilingual...