Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early returns of a nation-wide college poll indicate that Herbert Hoover of California and Alfred E. Smith of New York are the choices of American students for Republican and Democratic presidential nominations...
Work in the News competition will consist of gathering and writing up each day the news of the University. The competition is necessarly difficult but it is interesting and affords a wide and intimate knowledge of all the activities of the University and the men engaged in them...
...terms as State executive, which began in 1917, were marked by a systematic reorganization of the State government. The changes which he introduced included the establishment of the budget system, the reorganization of 108 overlapping bureaus into nine permanent departments, the planning of public works on a State-wide basis and similar reforms...
...election of a President of great wealth" with the exception of George Washington. Had he been talking about Secretaries of the Treasury he must have observed that the reverse is true-the richer the Treasurer the more trusted. That is part of the secret of Andrew Mellon's wide popularity...
...favor of having any religious denomination, Protestant or Catholic, backed by a nation-wide militant organization, established at Washington for the declared purpose of exercising what the Methodist Church now openly assumes to exercise, namely, the functions of censorship and dictatorship over all branches of our constitutional government...