Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the unanimous verdict of the critics in east and west, north and south, Dayton must be satisfied with the second best in this sphere. For all have agreed that "in all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn." For the evidence read the ravings of otherwise hardboiled critics in the enclosed folder...
...York City. Subscriber Springer is right in remembering that J. Sterling Morton was Secretary of Agriculture in Cleveland's second Cabinet (1893-97). Secretary Morton was not the first but the third to hold that office. He was politically active in Nebraska history-a member of the territorial legislature, then Secretary and Acting Governor of Nebraska Territory...
Only three things break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among...
Courage to tell the foremost financiers of the Great Powers that they resemble a gang of shady horse-traders is possessed by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the famed "Iron Man" who is President of Germany's Reichsbank. Today he represents the Fatherland on the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan and decide how much Germany must eventually pay in reparations. Last week the "Iron Man" found himself deadlocked with the delegates of the Great Powers, who include John Pierpont Morgan. Result: Dr. Schacht, who fears not even Wall...
...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...