Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some others went. Mrs. Harding, accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer, attended as an observer, perhaps remembering the day four years ago when from the gallery she saw her husband nominated. General Jacob S. Coxey, who marched his army of unemployed to the Capitol in 1894, was at hand, distributing pamphlets which asserted that interest on money should be abolished. There, too, went Harry M. Daugherty, no longer with highest power, a simple delegate from Ohio...
...valued its numerous buildings at approximately the same number of marks as in 1913; in those days the marks were each worth $8,000,000, today they are worth about ¼ of a cent. A Potsdam confectioner displayed a picture of Frederick the Great in a show case. Police saw it. In they went and ordered the confectioner to remove it forthwith, stating that it was "a blot on the municipal landscape...
...peak in the faith-healing career of Rev. Robert B. H. Bell, of Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...
Cleveland, O., June 12.--Amid a bedlam of shouting and noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...next ballot, however, saw Governor Lowden coming to the fore. Despite, his repeated assurances that he was not a candidate, the delegates flocked to his banner, and amid riotous applause, his nomination was announced. Uncertainty as to his acceptance was still so strong, however, that a recess was declared during which Chairman F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, communicated with the ex-governor of Illinois...