Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent...
...recall was part of the state reform movement which began during Roosevelt's regime. To dat, more than half of the states west of the Mississippi have adopted the recall. This piece of political machinery provides that when a certain percentage of the voters of a state sign a petition charging an official (governor, judge, etc.) with violation of his oath of office, there shall be an election held within from 20 to 90 days to oust or support the official in question...
...held tonight at 7 o'clock in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building, the Dramatic Club will open its year's activities. The heads of the various departments will explain to candidates the work of the competitions, which will start tonight. Candidates for the cast will sign up in the blue-book in Leavitt & Peirces' for two-minute tryouts...
Handicaps will be given and medals awarded for the first three places in each event. The meet is open to all students in the College, whether they are candidates for the track team or not. Bluebooks in which entrants may sign up have been placed in the Locker Building, and, for the convenience of Freshmen, at the Freshman Dormitories...
...Poincaré declared that he is drafting a series of "provisos" to be attached to the ratification. These "provisos" would not have the force of "reservations" but would record for posterity the reluctance of France to sign the pact as it stands. Thus an honorable loophole would be left open through which France might later request easier terms, while technically bound by the letter of her ratification...