Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much, too much, etc. If, as Pastor Rudy praises, the Senator showed "unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy," may I timidly wonder what unfortunate accident transmuted those "remarkable" brains into a mess of something that (if it were lady-like to call names) I should follow...
...What with Favorite Sons and Uninstruction and the wishful valor of Candidate Lowden's friends, the height of Hoover optimism last week was 414 delegates, or 131 shy. And of these 414, only 45 were on-the-dotted-line, there having been up to last week only seven State conventions and one primary election...
...State, Illinois, where the "Coolidge-anyway" movement of Governor Small and Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson grew daily in transparency and disrepute...
Secretary of State Kellogg sounded off twice during the week and was a party to one quiet order...
...institutions, outside of Harvard, represented in this balloting are: University of Cincinnati, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Wesleyan. Middlebury, University of Kentucky, University of North Dakota, University of Arizona, Penn State, Wellesley, and Dartmouth...