Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, let able Jumper Hoyt state why he jumped. TIME assumes him to possess a better reason than that given by one Elsie Ekengren, 17-year-old schoolgirl, who told reporters that after making his acquaintance on shipboard she girlishly cried, "I dare you to jump overboard," whereupon Jumper Hoyt jumped...
...Owen West of Illinois became Secretary of the Interior without reasonable doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
...recent state primaries and elections, $1 per vote has been cheap indeed for the returns obtained. The unsuccessful campaign of George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania cost $3.69 per vote in 1926. The same year, in the same State, William B. Wilson spent 65c per vote for a Senate nomination for which he had no opposition...
...people-sightseers who wander through the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., are apparently no bother at all to Nominee Smith in his conduct of his state's business. He even permits them to stop, look and listen in the executive chamber while he holds hearings as New York's chief magistrate...
Case 1. A New Yorker named Saunders was wanted in Georgia for alleged stock-swindling there between June, 1926 and April, 1927. Counsel for the defendant was a friend and supporter of Governor Smith's, a State Senator. The defense was an alibi, that the defendant was not in Georgia after February, 1926. Governor Smith started to gather up the papers on the case as though satisfied with the alibi. The U. S. Postal Inspector who had arrested Saunders, passed a letter to the Governor. The latter eyed it, eyed Saunders sharply, swore him, assured him that perjury...