Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
...thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...
...Know." A Cuban news-gatherer asked Nominee Smith what his stand was on the Platt Amendment.* The Nominee replied: "I don't even know what the Platt Amendment is. ... In the course of the campaign all those matters will be taken care...
...President of Greece, also a onetime co-revolutionist with Venizelos, dissolved Parliament and then signed a decree so altering the electoral law that the Venizelists, who would probably have won the next election, are now assured a sweeping victory. The decree provides among other things that no Jew may stand for election except on the "Jewish Ticket" which will have to be created for that purpose...
...Schoolgirl of Sixteen." The affair of Miss Savidge arose when she was acquitted of a charge of improper conduct in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...