Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will succeed him ? Perhaps he himself, for some insisted last week that he might accept Republican nomination against his will. But barring him as a Republican possibility in 1928, most commentators were left to exclaim with U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson: "I am astounded. The Republican race will be a free...
...accused of having written the treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence in the Dreyfus trial had consisted of forged documents. One Colonel Henry, chief of the French intelligence department, convicted of having forged...
...engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure [to prevent floods] is a national humiliation." Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways) Mr. Thompson said that...
Some idea of the large issue at stake was embodied last week in an address to the House of Commons by that discerning Liberal statesman, Lieutenant Commander Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy. He pictured a naval race between Britain and the U. S., similar to that between Britain and Germany prior to the World War. Said Commander Kenworthy portentously...
...chunky little Welshman named Frederick Hall Thomas, who had used the name of Freddie Welsh because he was proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...