Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guardia: "No. I do not yield to the gentleman from Florida. Florida is so happily situated near the West Indies that you can get all the pure liquor you want and it is hypocritical to take any stand as to law enforcement...
Green: "Florida will always take the stand of upholding the laws of our Nation...
...expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
...race Allen clipped two-fifths of a second off the 300-yard run. When the pistol cracked for the start of the 600-yard event. Haggerty was badly blocked at the start and Kane was soon trailing fourth or fifth. By the time the runners had passed the press stand with but two more laps before the finish, Kane had sneaked up to third place. The order was the same as they rounded the turn for the final lap: yet Kane broke the tape and lowered the record by two-fifths of a second...
...idea to whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there...