Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois...
Born. A son, William Alexander, the firstborn, to Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, onetime actress (the nun in The Miracle), campaigner for President-Reject Alfred E. Smith, niece of onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; in Manhattan...
...ousted Dictator Yintila Bratiano had 318. Today the fallen House of Bratiano, which had dominated Rumania since the creation of the Kingdom (1881), controls but 14 Chamber seats. Similarly in the new Senate, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu holds an overwhelming majority of 168 over the 36 followers of Dictator-Reject Vintila Bratiano...
...strangest pieces of mail which Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the U. S. Vice-President-Reject, has ever received, was a letter which he gleefully showed to colleagues last week. The letter warmly, sincerely, personally thanked Mr. Robinson for "the cordial support you gave me in the campaign." It was signed by Charles Curtis, the Vice-President-Elect. Senator Curtis laughed as hard as anyone. No one in the Senate needed to be told how it is that such slips occur when one answers each & every one of one's congratulaters after an election by warm, sincere, personal form-letters...