Word: bristowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Little Bristow, insurgent predecessor of Nominee Curtis as Senator from Kansas (1909-15), now a Washington, D. C., realtor and country gentleman. Reason: Hoover's sympathetic knowledge of the West...
Shrewd though modern debt and interest reductions have been, no Secretary of the Treasury will soon surpass the feats of little-remembered Secretary Benjamin Helm Bristow who, despite the panic of 1873 and with 5% and 7% Civil War loans outstanding, negotiated fresh loans in 1874 at 3% and refunded part of the debt...
JOSEPH L. BRISTOW...
...bell which that name rings in the mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge...
...Young, Chairman, Miss Hannah Wallace; J. H. Goodwin, Jr., Miss Alice Thorpe; D. A. Piguet, Miss Ethel Paterson; J. W. Packard, Miss Frances Bristow; D. W. Robertson, Miss Nancy Goddard...