Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying campaign issue: "Raskobism." The election meant the political unfrocking of Bishop James Cannon Jr., who was absent in Brazil when election day came. Governor-elect Pollard called his victory "a warning to those who may seek, for partisan purposes, to revive religious strife." Commented Senator Moses, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman: "The Dutch have captured Holland...
...your reporter seek out Dr. Harry B. Pinney, the able, affable secretary of Chicago? There would have been no rebuff...
...this new line M. Daladier worked furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage...
...overtures are not a yielding to the clamor of the women nor an acceptance of their demand. There is no such clamor, no such demand." Added Feminist Ella Alexander Boole, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union: "It is not at all probable that many women will seek ordination...
...college has decided that all shall share a similar fate. Just at the time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers and will amuse countless burghers in numerous cities, the students involved must have sentiments much akin to those of the banished Huguenots and the Moors of Spain...