Word: directed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place the direct primary must be blamed. It is an outrageous form of government, a deviation from the representative form of government in which the U. S. was founded. The direct primary* was passed because of the influence of Theodore Roosevelt and Senators Borah and Johnson. Among its other results, it has put in the United States Senate the worst group of men we have ever had there in the history of our country...
Committeeman Liggett failed to elect his Republican candidate Benjamin Loring Young to the Senate last November. Quick to retort was Frank J. Donahue, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee: "Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
...Liggett, new to politics, meant not the direct primary, a local nominating method, but the popular election of Senators, as provided in the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, approved by Congress May 13, 1912. Mr. Liggett's Massachusetts was the first State to ratify it (May 22, 1912). Its final ratification came...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...
...Indian name: Kotaw Kaluntuchy. She claimed direct descent from Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian Chief credited with invention of the Cherokee alphabet. In 1914 she, 23, married Croker, 73. They lived in Iceland. She said to reporters: "It is the dearest ambition of every Indian girl to win a chief . . . I have won the chief of mine...