Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equally famed as historian is William E. Dodd of the University of Chicago. He told why the Solid South might shift. But as to whether it would, he said, "The answer is not easy...
...continues to get along with a Congress and an Electoral College modeled as of the year 1910. Every ten years the census is taken and every ten years the people's Representatives in the House are supposed to be allocated afresh, to reflect growth and shift of populations in the 435 Congressional districts. But Reapportionment with the 1920 census as a basis has been consistently blocked by Congressmen whose States had either no seat to gain or a seat or two to lose if the Constitution were obeyed...
...Prohibitionists nominated a man named William F. Varney, of Rockville Center, N. Y., for President of the U. S., but reserved the right to shift to Herbert C. Hoover instead of Mr. Varney should Mr. Hoover care to state specifically that .5% is as strong as he thinks liquor should ever be permitted to be in the U. S. A man named James A. Edgerton, of Alexandria, Va., was nominated for Vice President...
...ebbed steadily. Georgia's George, Tennessee's Hull, and Mississippi's Harrison declined to be sheer "anti's." Arkansas' Robinson said his delegates were free. So did Ayres of Kansas. Young Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser, sent word from Cleveland that a united party was the essential thing. Before the first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined...
...witnesses the informal climax to Harvard's 1927-1928 athletic and social calendar. Today all eyes are upon the 1884 men who, with sombre intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there...