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Current Crimson boxing Coach Tommy Rawson, who met Lamar in the late 1920s and worked with him at Harvard, spoke of him in glowing terms. "He was an outstanding gentleman and gamesman," Rawson said...
...This fall, we're going to campaign for the most extensive tax overhaul this country has had since the 1920s," Reagan said, moving on to one of his favorite topics. "It's a choice between the special interest and the general interest. This is a big one, and with your help, we're going to win it for America...
...increasingly does, the message is resolutely "pro-family" and conservative. The TV empires greatly increase the public clout of conservative preachers, who have become celebrities, generating huge cash flows through on-the-air fund raising. Doctrinaire Protestantism is bursting beyond church walls into the wider society. Not since the 1920s have political Fundamentalists been as well financed, visible, organized and effective. Deeply committed believers, working long and zealously, get tavern hours trimmed in Anchorage; disrupt school-board meetings in Hillsboro, Mo., as they demand to control curriculum; force doctors to stop performing abortions in Virginia Beach, Va.; march...
...this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
...with the aim of barring Chinese and other Asians. But the Urban Institute's Muller believes there is now more tolerance and less racial animosity than at any other time in U.S. history. Says he: "There is no public attitude remotely like the virulent attitude of the 1840s and 1920s. I don't detect any strong backlash out there...