Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gore. The laborious effort of Senator James A. Reed to get nominated at the convention took a surprising turn when onetime (1907-21) Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter...
...have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which Thompsonism tried to keep itself in office...
Justice wondered where to turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
...sensational round that left him in a tie with Jones at 294 and beat Hagen who had 296, when news came to the clubhouse that one Roland Hancock, 200-pound 22-year-old son of a Wilmington, N. C., professional, had gone out in 33 and was rounding the turn ahead of everybody. Hancock took a five at the tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some...