Word: buren
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Robert M. Sweitzer of Chicago is a man of great personal and political charm. Born 67 years ago at the corner of Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week...
...Buren's Memoirs were written in 1860 and published...
Roosevelt can rely, and has to count, on a vast public ignorance of the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren, on a press fairly corrupt, but sainted and pure by comparison with that of England and France, on the very slow distribution of all informative books on ALL subjects, and on the refusal of American publishing houses to take over the lead from London when they had the chance (now lost...
STOUGHTON 1--Occupied by John Gorham Palfrey, Secretary of State, under Van Buren and professor of sacred Literature at Harvard, during the year 1849-1850; by Edward Channing, famous historian; and by Francis Minor Weld...
Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...