Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas, who took a prominent part in the Kansas Hoover campaign, outspoken, never at a loss for words...
...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...bank vice-presidency in East St. Louis, Ill., was his stepping-stone to Chicago. There banker James B. Forgan took him into his First Trust & Savings Bank and with that potent backing and his own brilliant acumen he rose like a rocket to the presidency of the First National Bank of Chicago which he holds today...
Nationalist v. Nationalist. Professing himself a better Nationalist than his personal foe the Prime Minister, astute William Hughes took the attitude that it would be the very negation of Nationalism to follow the Bruce plan of handing over the states the whole duty of labor arbitration, simply because the states have again and again refused to give the Dominion Court supreme authority. Instead, he thought that the Nationalist Party should keep resolutely plugging for the constitutional amendment which thus far has proved unobtainable...