Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the plans announced by the Harvard Democratic Club, the convention will be conducted under the same rules that govern the procedure of the Democratic national convention, the audience being split into delegations from the various states with a chairman leading each one. Measures are now being taken to prevent a preponderance of Eastern delegates at the expense of those from the West; it is planned that state representation should be approximately equal...
After the several candidates have been designated and speeches made on their behalf, the party candidate will be chosen by the unit system, each state controlling one vote. The chairmen of the various state delegations, chosen by the men from the separate states who have expressed interest in the forthcoming convention, will assemble to arrange final details for the meeting, Friday evening at the Union...
...stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being bumped by, or bumping, other atoms, cannot save their strength to go into a highly active state give very different lines when photographed...
...Other able Snooks are John Wilson Snook, warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.; Homer Clyde Snook, electrophysicist, of South Orange, N. J.; John S. Snook, onetime Congressman, of Paulding, Ohio; Frank S. Snook, chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, of Sacramento, Calif...
Edgar Albert Guest, perhaps the only U. S. poet whose verses have earned him fortune, gave a talk to 800 Royal Oak (Mich.) high-school students. The occasion was advertised as a "pep" meeting, to encourage the school debating team in its efforts to win the state championship. Poet Guest smiled at the students and spoke to them for more than 35 minutes...