Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 20 minutes, Demos sat down. It was then that Nominee Hoover made his first, direct reference to Nominee Smith. Said he: "no man could fail to be moved by the reception I have received in the home town of my distinguished opponent." Nominee Hoover announced that he would ignore "the multitude of issues which have already been well canvassed" and discuss home "fundamental principles and ideals." He plunged into a series of generalities such as "the march of progress," "great constructive measures," and "an economic and social system, vastly more intricate and delicately adjusted than ever before...
Sedalia. What makes Sedalia, Mo., a famed political spot is a 230-acre enclosure, the State Fair Grounds, with an auditorium that will hold some 10,000 persons. With this edifice packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...
...some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...Raised Plymouth, which has been a town for 400 years, to the rank of city...
...Hell Devil Darling" are Marine Corps synonyms for Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler. So admirable has been his policing of Tientsin, during the Chinese Civil War (TIME, June 25 et ante), that last week he received a supreme honor from grateful China, an honor which a Chinese town or city can confer only with the unanimous consent of every citizen...