Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osborne is especially famous as the founder of the Mutual Welfare League, which he organized in 1911 when he was warden of Sing Sing Prison. He first spent a week in Auburn prison as a convict under the name of "Tom Brown." and the knowledge gained thereby, coupled with the results of years of study of prison reform, caused him to organize the Mutual Welfare League among the prisoners...
...back as far as 1916. In that year Harry S. New fought with James E. Watson for the Republican senatorial nomination. New won and was elected. In 1916 senator Benjamin F. Shively died, and Tom Taggart (Democratic Boss) was appointed to the vacancy until the next election day. Later the same year Taggart was defeated by Watson. In 1922 Senator New was faced in the primaries by Albert J. Beveridge, Senator (1899-1911,) and Arthur R. Robinson, a young Indianapolis lawyer. Beveridge won in the primary, but the New men helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge...
...Beveridge will fight one of them for his place?probably Robinson because he is weaker. And Governor Ed. Jackson may come into the fray by resigning and running for the Senate. With four Republicans, or at least three, scrapping for two offices, there will be a bitter fight, and Tom Taggart or some Democrat of his choice will have a good chance of taking a Senate seat, as Ralston did three years ago from Beveridge...
...make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn't seem possible that a girl would walk so many miles for her beau when...
...return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman play the parts. Miss Banky seems a singularly felicitous and decorative addition to the ranks of California celebrities. The Everlasting Whisper. Tom...