Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary is an important figure in international business and in Missouri was formerly chairman of Missouri's first Road Commission and is the man principally responsible for the beginning of Missouri's present system of good roads which was carried through under the slogan "Get Missouri...
Nicaragua. Early practical results of the present U. S. Marine intervention in Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926 et seq.) were the defeat and flight of a Liberal President, and the maintenance in power of a Conservative President. Last week a Liberal victory at the forthcoming Nicaraguan election seemed imminent, because the Conservatives are split into two factions, each claiming to be the "Historic Conservative Party." Therefore General Frank Ross McCoy charged by President Coolidge with the supervision of the Nicaraguan election, ruled that neither Conservative faction would be allowed to present a Presidential Candidate representing "The Historic Conservative Party...
...session at the Hotel Biltmore was long and late (3 a. m.). Present were Nominee Robinson, Nominator Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tammanyites George W. Olvany, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, James A. Foley and Joseph Tumulty; also Senators Hawes of Missouri and Harrison of Mississippi. Nominee Smith was there, too. When they went to bed they all knew what they wanted...
...biography in luridly improbable terms, drank liquor from a bottle and implied an improper proposal in her admission that she had no money to pay the fare; about two Negresses, who, while sitting in Thomas Whelpley's cab, engaged in a long conversation on their ability to present the appearance of white persons, a conversation which Thomas Whelpley reported verbatim and in extenso; about a member of his former congregation who ducked into a hotel with a "perfumed young woman"; about a female who cried "Turn around, Turn around! Don't you hear? Go back. Damned...
...possible that Thomas Whelpley experienced the episodes which he described. But to many a newspaperman it seemed clear that in the present debauch of "ghostwriting" a depraved press had gone so far as to persuade a preacher to join the ranks of sporting characters and society women who lie for money...