Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHARLES W. BRYAN...
...best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard Hanna, well-to-do wholesale grocer and ship owner, was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837. All his life Ohio was his empire. Until the Presidential campaign of 1896, when Bryan, the silver-tongued prophet of Free Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal...
...State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up the chain. Attorney Thomas Stinson Allen, brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute one tenth of one per cent of their average deposits per year, to be used...
Following are those retained: A.R. Benner '33; C.S. Bryan, Jr. '33; P.M. Bucuvalas '33; J.S. Chase '33; D.S. Child '33; A.E. Davidson '33; S.C. Dorman '33; J.N. Eisman '33; M.M. Frakas '33; G. Fremd, Jr. '33 C.C. Glavin '33; C.W. Greer '33; H.A. Han '33; J.S. Holbrook '33; W.A. Huppuch '33; N.A. Johnson '33; R.L. Kimbrough '33; A.J. Maturesevitch '33; R.L. Mindlin '33; J.S. Plaut '33; B. Renshaw '33; W.A. Schoreder, Jr. '33; A.T.T. Schumacher '33; W.H. Stein '33; K. Upton '33; H.K. Wells '33; and H.R. Woodard...
...jumpy, too volatile in his policies, too lacking in the power of continuous and sustained thought and action for me to feel that he is in any way such a man as, for instance, Taft or Root. You might as well talk of my being under the influence of Bryan...