Word: arched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
...Wilson's going halted, at least temporarily, the agitation of a prime popular question: Is the Methodist Board a "lobby"? Is Dr. Wilson an arch-lobbyist? The question had been most recently raised by Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts...
...reference to Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia, the Senator's arch political...
This Roanoke gathering was the political child of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
...Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...