Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late as a Hoover _ cam paigner last year. In Paris he will be happy indeed because "just across the channel, Charley" (TIME, May 27) will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before...
...when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...
...that still?the fastest lifeboat crew in the world. . . . They won the international race in New York harbor last year, and they'll win it again...
...huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record up to last week-end was 16 won, 2 lost. Pitcher Grimes of Pittsburgh had the same record. Part of the Grimes effectiveness results from the fact that he throws a spitball.* Some years ago the spitball was barred except for pitchers who had already specialized in it. There are now hardly any oldtime spitballers left, so Pitcher...