Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department's activity this summer almost suggests that Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg functions best when the rest of the Government is, for the most part, away from Washington. Last week, with plans nearly matured for the multilateral treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats...
...warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome...
...bill providing local option by petition of a simple majority of the voters of a district. Votes (1914, 1915) against bills providing for the creation, by popular vote, of anti-saloon territory, and enforcement of prohibition within such territory. Votes (1915) to stifle in committee bills providing for a state referendum on prohibition. Votes (1907-11) to provide exceptions to the laws prohibiting sale of liquor within 200 feet of a church or school. A vote (1911) for extending the hours when liquor might be sold...
...girl, a hanger on at rehearsal halls and an ofttime entertainer or hostess at night clubs, Isobel Stone was compelled to relinquish the idea of a rent-paying existence. Luckily one Gus Clark offered her his dingy and dilapidated float on which she was discovered last week in a state of great and irritable depression which she expressed in this fashion...
...Appetite two or three days before; their sleeps are sound, and Sense and Feeling very little; for pulling,drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation; breathe slowly, but not unequally nor snort. Young people are more subject to it than the old; and the Judgment generally pronounced is Death, the Prognostick seldom failing. If now and then one of them recovers he certainly loses...