Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitted only in cities and towns having a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants. Not less than ten days before election day elector may make written application for a certificate to the county clerk. The application must give the elector's name, age, residence, voting precinct or ward, state that he is a qualified voter there, the name of the political party with which he is affiliated, and that he is unavoidably absent from his ward or precinct on the last general registration held there. The application must be signed by the applicant and sworn to by him before...
...backfield is composed of Whisnant, quarterback; Ward and Spaulding, halfbacks; and Foard, fullback. All these men with the exception of Spaulding have had at least one year's experience in intercollegiate competition. The extreme lightness of the quartet is noteworthy. Whisnant is the smallest, weighing only 150 while the other three range between 162 and 166. It is particularly adapted to the wide open game which the invading Tarheels will spring upon Coach Horween's heavier cohorts in Saturday's encounter...
There have been a number of upsets in the tournament so far. E. B. Ward '30 who was seeded number four was eliminated from the tournament by J. H. Appleton '29 who had not been seeded...
Legislator. Matthew J. Patterson, plump, horn-spectacled member of the State Legislature and Vare-Republican leader of the 19th ward, was arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. both asked for short wave channels to transact business between their branches over the country. Anderson, Clayton & Co., potent cotton brokers, asked for a channel between their Houston and Manhattan offices...