Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of the 18th Amendment were vexed to see this suggestion that it is ineffective. Theorists, pedants, cranks, impecunious school teachers and hardboiled newspaper reporters began planning to win Mr. Durant...
...win on a shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner...
Eight oarsmen and a coxswain from the University of California smashed the Olympic record for 2,000 metres in the semifinals, then pulled a little more than half a length ahead of the shell of the Thames Rowing Club (London) to win the most important rowing event of the IXth Olympiad. Followed a U.S. victory in the majority of the water events, with Martha Norelius, Albina Ossipowitch, Helen Meany, George Kojac, Pete Desjardines, John Weissmuller as kingpins...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
...appointees of President Harding who had stood the test of time. Born in Tennessee, he was the first citizen of that state to win a Rhodes scholarship. At 27, as president of Kentucky Wesleyan College, he selected chairs for greybeards. In Florida, he will manipulate a university, adequately supported by the state, including schools as diversified as journalism and pharmacy. He is young enough to mingle with undergraduates, old enough to be a stubborn organizer...