Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Thomas Moran, painter. It found him in his 90th year in Santa Barbara. He was the last of four senior Morans illustrious in U. S. art: Edward, Thomas, Peter, and Mary Nimmo Moran, the Scotch painter-etcher who married her teacher, Thomas. There survive Leon and Percy Moran, sons of Edward...
...this country are to preserve our government, which has been built with so much sacrifice and labor, we must keep it free of the influence of money. That means, of course, that we must scotch corruption relentlessly wherever we find it. In dealing with this question of corruption, the trouble is that corruption shades off in a hundred different ways that become increasingly difficult to detect...
...Puff-PUFF!" went the engine of Their Majesties' royal train last week, as able Scotch engineer, Mortimer Glendower, tested his locomotive preparatory to the imperial summer jaunt. During the last of August His Majesty will hunt in Yorkshire, will spend September en famille at Balmoral Castle, famed Scotch rustication ground of "Dear Albert" and Victoria...
...Republican Senatorial candidate had been defeated in the primaries. As he added the list of his campaign expenses the thought suddenly came to him that perhaps he had not spent enough. His total was precisely $6.75-the price of a good mashie or a mediocre quart of Scotch. Thereupon, he, Candidate H. N. Midtbo of Donnybrook, N. D., despatched a postal card to the Secretary of the Senate, saying...
...serving from 1907 to 1913, during which time he drafted a bill to create a Department of Labor. On its being established in 1913 President Wilson appointed him its first head. At an early age William Wilson had been employed in the Pennsylvania coal mines where his father, a Scotch immigrant, also worked. Eleven years discovered William a sturdy member of the labor union; 26, president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty, efficiency, he entered Congress; but now is embarked...