Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well defined are the doctrines and the principles upon which it [the Democracy] is founded, that it has survived defeat after defeat!" The 14,500,000 popular votes for Smith were cited; also the change of less than 500,000 which, "spread around the country, would have altered the result." False note though this latter seemed-since only 137,501- more popular votes "spread around the country" would have given Hoover all the electoral votes-it did not spoil the main theme: "The Democratic party is a live, a vigorous and a forceful major minority party...
...that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which...
...peered about to glimpse the "Throne" were startled by the simple, even frail construction of the chair. Simple, but not without dignity, for it rested on the topmost of three octagonal pedestals, surrounded by an octagonal pavilion with draw curtains, this surmounted by a great golden Phoenix with wings spread. Pavilion and chair rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side...
...Doric columns of the New York Times, in the tabloid New York Daily News and in many another U. S. daily, during the last fortnight of the campaign, was spread an eye-arresting advertisement. Half of it was an olla-podrida of press clippings, some of them from The Fellowship Forum. Specimens...
...Candidate Hoover. The Sun's star political correspondent, George Van Slyke wired: "The religionists have thrown off all restraints in the last month and are working openly against Smith. The State is flooded with the anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors...