Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover secretary, to handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...
...Hoover Secretary Newton proved to be a true and unfailing friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
Democrats hailed this Minnesota by-election, called it "significant." In a district where Democratic vote crops have been measly for years, the party's nominee ran within 4,000 votes of Candidate Nolan (23.336 to 19,755). Reason: "agricultural inequalities" in the proposed new tariff...
...fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife ran from the house to the farm pond, plunged in, drowned herself. Ion Gerghuta, when he saw that she was dead, found his revolver and killed himself...
...prizes were distributed, from $2,000 in gold and a large silver plaque for Miss Universe, to $100 consolation prizes for minor beauties. Miss Brazil did not even place, was dubbed Miss Also Ran by irreverent telegraphers...