Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser, sent word from Cleveland that a united party was the essential thing. Before the first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith...
Neysa McMein, artist, croquet expert, returned on the Aquitania to report the progress of the game in France. Said Miss McMein: "Croquet is now the vogue among the smart set. Americans are busy playing it. Dukes and princes . . . play badly...
Willys Dividend. For the first time since 1920, Willys-Overland Co. paid a dividend. Said President John North Willys: "This action is another positive indication of the rapidly advancing progress of this company." The dividend is a quarterly one of 30^ ?per share of common stock...
...great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
...United States has an especial interest in the advancement and progress of all Latin American countries. ... In the case of Nicaragua, we are engaged in co-operation with the government of that country...