Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England aristocrat, while another owned a small automobile agency in Missouri. One peg had been worn smooth with a quarter-century's public service, while another had never been outside the steel business. Two pegs were frankly politicians, stuck in as rewards for services rendered, and for convenience in services to come. Two others had snugly filled their holes for eight years under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. One peg was an old college friend, another a Democrat except in Presidential elections...
Nine of the ten pegs went to college (Harvard, 2; Michigan, 2; Yale, Pittsburgh, Coe, Minnesota, Stanford, one each). Three pegs have done military service. One peg is immensely rich; two pegs are rich; the rest, well-to-do. The pegs' geographical centre is further west than in any previous cabinet-Far West, 1; Midwest, 5: East, 3; New England...
...Within two years there the charms of electricity faded. He returned to Minnesota to enter the State University, to become a lawyer. His practice began and continued with "the greatest law firm between Chicago and the Pacific coast," later known as Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler. Pierce Butler was long senior partner before his advancement to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...well-made yachting cap in a stiff breeze. But to pilot the International Cup Defender Resolute to victory, as Mr. Adams did do in 1920, and to guide the destiny of the U. S. Navy from a swivel chair in Washington, as Mr. Adams will do, are two wide-apart things...
...substantial promotion last week, when Representative Fiorello* H. La Guardia of Manhattan took Miss Marie M. Fisher, his secretary for 14 years, unto him as second wife. Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minnesota, a Lutheran minister, performed the service and the marriage was formally announced on the House floor. Two days later Representative La Guardia, swart and peppery, impeached a Federal judge...