Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North Carolina's Simmons remained hostile. Virginia's peppery little Glass arrived, was given a hotel room without a bath, lost his famed temper (TIME, May 28), vowed he never would vote for Smith. Missouri's Reed, after seeming to have quieted down, snapped "I am tired of this rot," and issued a statement which was a transparent attempt to rally the dwindling dry bloc. But it seemed that nothing upsetting would really happen-unless there came a fight over the party's platform...
...heart attack in 1923 left him, his friends thought, less equable of temper than before. Perhaps this contributed to his defeat for the Speakership in 1925. Failing health did not, however, impair his capacity for work. He continued at the head of the Appropriations Committee, devoting even his recesses to study...
...letters like Henderson's. If you do not publish this so he can read it, please give me his address and I'll give him a piece of a woman's mind and you know what that will mean when a woman really gets her Irish temper...
...Cabinet before the House of Commons on a multiplicity of bills and issues which must have kept him slaving over the preparation of his speeches through many a night. Withal, rubicund Sir Douglas Hogg, who greatly resembles Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, has kept his cheeks pink, his temper cool, his jokes fresh, his judgment sound...
...Difference was attributed to overproduction of crude oil. Of 1928 said President W. S. Parish: "Any measure of prosperity that comes to the industry this year must come through the utmost caution and conservatism on the part of each individual unit of the industry, large or small. We must temper our effortis to produce crude, and as refiners we jmust not overproduce our markets for gasoline...