Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part in local politics and government, his associates in and out of office, his connections with the disorderly, disreputable and lawless auxiliaries of politics are known to every one who knows anything about local conditions. It might as well be Al Capone in charge of the campaign...
...came, he undressed, he was conquered. Demos perceived his presence on the beach and thronged around him by thousands. "Al's here" said Demos. "Look, there's Al Smith...
...racket is a trade or vocation which is loud, bold and often illegal. For example, there is the bootlegging racket, the murder-for-money racket, the dry cleaning racket (in which Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was hired to protect a group of dry cleaners). A racketeer is one who practices a racket...
This year I am voting for Al Smith and I will bet you a 10 years' subscription to TIME that I won't be let down. What...
...President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...