Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Butler's record at Washington has been none too impressive And now, with the mid-term reaction rising ominously, Mr. Walsh, in his undoubted popularity, stands a very good chance of being elected...
Correspondent Kent, a red-hot Democrat but none the less a brilliant observer, naturally did not look with much favor upon this change in Mr. Heflin. He suggested a number of possibilities which might account for the change: 1) That Mr. Heflin found himself without an issue and did not know where to go oratorically. 2) That perhaps like his fellow Senator Pat Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible...
...None the less, his promotion was slow. He was 47 before he became a colonel (1894) but he had plodded valiantly through Bismarck's Blut und Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...
...they smelled a delicious story of bourgeoisie abroad. The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from the Holy Land. Gossip insisted: that the ministers had conducted five religious services a day; that none of the ministers had "tipped" during or after the voyage; that several passengers refused to leave the ship because it had returned home one day sooner than the contract called for; that cabins had been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding...
...Think of asking twelve men, picked up from all parts of this state, none of them knowing anything of law, being asked to settle a case like this. I am a mechanic. I could take an engine apart and tell you why it didn't go, but why ask me to remember what scores of witnesses have said over a period of six weeks? There may be a man in the United States who can remember what all those witnesses said, but that man is not Erwin C. Conant...