Word: year
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...21?Close of Pope Pius XI's Jubilee year...
...Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations, mills, railroads, Lobbyist Lakin went to Washington the first of the year to work against an increased sugar tariff. Cuban planters chipped in to pay his expenses. President Machado of Cuba blessed his activities. So disarmingly had he told his story before that the Lobby Committee praised him for his "frankness" (TIME...
...only opera Boston even pretends to support comes from Chicago, for two weeks each year...
...table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written by the author in person one rainy Sunday afternoon (TIME...
...oldest U. S. college debating organization is Princeton's American Whig Society. Established in 1769, its early membership was composed of hot-headed Colonials who congregated on the top floor of Nassau Hall, fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one year younger, held positions of social importance on the campus. Undergraduate lassitude caused them to merge into one Hall last year. But many an oldtime Whig and Clio debater has made good in after life as a pedagog or politician. Two U. S. Presidents, five presidents of Princeton, were Whigs...