Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri. The other politician in the Cabinet, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, represents city politics...
Last week the mystery ended when Mr. Shearer, to collect a pay claim, filed suit in Manhattan against his alleged employers?Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding Co., American Brown-Bovari Corp. From these shipbuilders, Lobbyist Shearer said, he had received $51,230. He claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more...
Shocked at the falsehoods, Robert Brown and Conner Bates, assistant prosecutors, withdrew from the case, announced their belief that Wright, innocent, had been "framed." Judge J. C. Hobbs let the case go to the jury, warned them against a death penalty verdict. The jury found Wright guilty, fixed punishment at ten years' imprisonment...
...After two months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...
Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance...