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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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His heart warmed by a Presidential farewell, and perhaps stimulated by foreknowledge of a Presidential blessing he was to receive en route (see p. 7), Herbert Hoover set out from Washington to Palo Alto, to vote for himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Own Main Street | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Ever since the hour of Alfred E. Smith's nomination, many a dry-rural-Democrat had waited for a McAdoodle. Finally, last week, 72 hours before the election, it came: "I am absolutely opposed to Governor Smith's position on Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, but I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McAdoo | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

"What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smithisms | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

"He [Mr. Hughes] himself was responsible for the statement made before the Bar Association that I am a past master in the art of politics. At the same time he says that you cannot take the tariff out of politics. Now, if both statements are right, let him leave that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smithisms | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Leather. Many U. S. makers of shoes, purses, gloves, buy their high grade goat and kid skins from Martin Zimmer Lederwerke, A. G., of Frankfort-am-Main, Ger many, and their reptile skins from Alpina Ltd. of Paris and Berne. The two tanning firms are now consolidated.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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