Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to find out whether or not you are right in your contention that Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson is "of Danish stock," you might ask him personally, and I hereby make the offer to donate one hundred dollars ($100) to any charity designated by you if Mr. Stefansson will say that he is "of Danish stock...
...Curtis: "Oh, you Democrats. . . . Tell us about Tammany . . . greatest robbing machine in history! But I would not have referred to that if you had not been mean enough to ask that question...
...Hoover calls Prohibition a 'noble experiment'. . . .* I am compelled to ask, 'When is the experiment going to start?' Not long since I had a communication from a very distinguished employee of the Department of Justice on this very subject ... I can't think of anything more noble to do with this noble experiment than to start in the City of Washington...
...folly to ask earnest Protestants to keep silent on the moral issue (Prohibition) which they originated, merely because it has been taken up as a political issue by the two great contending parties? Two million Presbyterians were told last week that it is "folly amounting to an absurdity...
That there would be a scramble in the midlands over the 1928 nomination was visible a year ago. Herbert Hoover began looking around for a Midwestern manager. It was natural for him to ask James William Good, a onetime (1909-1921) Congressman from Iowa. Secretary Hoover had known Congressman Good as an able legislative Committeeman. He came from Cedar Rapids, near the Hoover birthplace (West Branch). Above all, he was the man who had organized the Midwest for Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 campaign...