Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wolff was the wittiest and more entertaining speaker of the evening and appeared to win the approval of the audience to his side of the argument. At the end of the debate many questions were asked of the speakers from the floor...
...South. Col. Horace Mann, undercover Hooverizer in the South, was allowed to withdraw last fortnight from further political operations when he failed to win the support of the Republican National Committee for his "lily white" movement (TIME, Feb. 18). He went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana...
...method of shelving legislation during the life of a Congress. A most recent and notable pocket veto was President Coolidge's disposal of the bill for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant (TIME, June 11). Other pocketed bills which would become law if the Okonogan Indians should win their case include a prohibition against the useless slaughter of buffalo (1874) and the acceleration of the Missouri-California mails from 38 to 30 days...
...team last year, competing in the 175 pound and heavy-weight classes, where he was a consistent scorer. This year he wrestled in the heavyweight class and won all of his matches except two, losing twice to Cornsweet of Brown. He was the only man on the team to win against Yale this year...
...dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter and the heroine has become a great actress. Each thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that. For revenge the heroine attempts to win the fiance of the hero's daughter, who, of course, turns out to be the heroine's own daughter. And so on-far into the night. It is difficult to tell whether the players are in on the joke. They are as incredible as the plot but that...