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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I am frank to confess that my interest in this campaign is personal far more than partisan. If I did not believe in the ability of Mr. Hoover to deal with the farm problem, if I did not believe he would in good faith uphold and enforce the Constitution, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Of Prohibition, he said: "I cannot speak for Tennessee, but in our State [Ohio] every man or woman who wants a drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Campaigning for one's relatives or their party, or their opponents' party, is different. Most sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, are glad to do that. In the present campaign, many a famed descendant has been active or at least visible. Grandson Arthur Smith Jr., aged 30 months, sang "Sidewalks of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons & Daughters | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Mrs. Norris said: "I am not following George in all this. I am not going to vote for Smith even if George does, and I am not going to vote for Hoover, either. . . . I have always been a dry. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Octopus! | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

*The U. S. publishing house of Harper & Bros, states that Novelist Frankau has just written them as follows: "I am terribly busy starting a tremendously big paper for England and the Empire. This naturally will take up most of my time for some months to come. But after that I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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