Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matthew J. Patterson, portly Vareman, State Legislator, boss of the 19th ward, who found himself jailed for five years, fined $7,500. "Extortion, bribery & conspiracy" rang dismally in his ears...
...Recording-Secretary Mrs. Jeanette C. Beach of the W. C. T. U. of New York tried to help Hoover carry that state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
Five-Year-Old. On the fifth birthday of the Turkish Republic, last week, every State and Municipal official was examined to see whether he knew his ABC's. Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the test. Those who flunked out would be demoted or dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must...
...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
Professor Masaryk's egotism is as titanic as his achievements. Single-handed he built up the marvelous organization of propagandists, spies and deserters who finally erected themselves into the nucleus of a state. True, Professor Masaryk was indispensably assisted by Dr. Edouard Benes, now Foreign Minister, but none the less Professor Masaryk is the Father of Czechoslovakia. His propagandists are become statesmen, his spies heroes, his deserters officers in the Army of the Republic...