Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite and defended by another, both Jews. A woman Socialist, Bertha Mailly, also ran. Mrs. Pratt was expected to win because "Broadway's Congressman" is normally Republican. She made a vigorous campaign, renouncing weekends in the country all summer and fall...
...Nash, "millionaire Omaha grandmother," octogenarian widow of the late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...
...years ago they signed not a secret but a very discreet treaty which became operative last year, establishing The International Wine Bureau, in Paris. Although the treaty was duly deposited with the League of Nations, it has never been officially printed. But perhaps its quasi-secret text came last summer under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller III, undergraduate grandson of John D. Rockefeller I, who worked during vacation as an information clerk at the Secretariat of the League of Nations (TIME, July 16), peered into many a document, and returned in September to Princeton-where even charladies know that...
Members of the four oared crew which represented United States in the Olympics last summer will receive the minor sport "11" it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. as a result of a last Monday meeting of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
...film, taken last summer, consists of six reels, showing scenes in Hamburg and other Hanseatic towns, Berlin, Dresden, Leipsig, Weinar, Nuremburg, Munich, the Bavarian Alps, and other sections of the country...