Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Causes for Mr. Burke's departure: 1) A new National Committee chairman (Claudius Hart Huston) who lets no one "officiate" for him; 2) A tendency to "leak" to newspapermen about President Hoover's political troubles; 3) A cloud cast by Mrs. Willebrandt's accusation, and never dispelled...
But Prohibitor Volstead had no hand in advancing Mr. Youngquist to the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Almost entirely responsible for this appointment was Mr. Youngquist's new chief, U. S. Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast...
Twenty-million-dollar assets produce million-dollar incomes. Last week the Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue reported some facts about U. S. millionaires gathered during the 1927 tax year:
"To loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the...
¶ Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and...