Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hughes Newton,* representing the Fifth (Minneapolis) Congressional District of Minnesota, resigned to become a 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...
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...
...statements which have appeared in today's secular newspapers." He wanted it understood, in the first place, that he had been buying securities "on the instalment plan," not gambling. Then he explained that during the last presidential campaign Senator Carter Glass (Va.) telegraphed to him: "For some unexplained reason affidavits have today been placed in my hands relating to alleged stock gambling on margin by you with the late bucketshop firm of Kable & Co. . . . Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that he first properly "digested and appraised" this...
Divorced. Will H. Hays, onetime (1921-22) Postmaster-General, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, President of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America; from Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays; at Sullivan, Ind.; after a marriage lasting 27 years. Reason: incompatibility...
...Vettori. Fat and cunning, Sam owned the spaghetti joint over which the gang met. Rico's cop-murder alarmed Sam. Conservative, Sam protested: "Love of God, didn't I tell you no gunwork?" Rico retaliated by reducing Sam's share of the spoils. Sam acknowledged defeat graciously. Reason: the gang's best guns were behind ruthless Rico. So Rico rose to leadership of the gang...