Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand, Mrs. Knapp said her step-daughter had earned the money and knew all about how it was spent. The stepdaughter, a penurious school-teacher about the same...
...Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George?large daughter of small David?was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales...
Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...
...voting is concerned, not even one citizen of the Soviet Union can vote otherwise than for candidates who are members of the Communist Party; because no other candidates are permitted to stand for election...
...bronze group well rewarded their efforts. Ten feet high, on a granite base, it shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...