Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Callers. The newsmen simply sat, fidgeted, watched callers going in and out. Early to come was William S. Vare, Philadelphia's pudgy boss, whose obtrusion at Kansas City embarrassed Hooverism and irked Pennsylvania (see p. 13). Mr. Vare also went to see Nominee Curtis at the Capitol. The nature...
Nominee Curtis also called and with this visit the Hoover campaign for election formally began. The Hoover-Curtis conference, which lasted several hours, was for the purpose of drafting a new slate of officers for the National Republican Committee. Observers estimated that this conference consisted of about 98% Hoover decision...
Curtis Hoyt Dickins, senior chaplain of U. S. Navy D. D.
Before the Hoover nomination, but after it had been conceded, Candidate Curtis had said: "If some of the gentlemen from the East had had a little more backbone we might have had a ticket that the whole party would have been proud of. ... I would not give three whoops in...
"This one was a Methodist, and he wanted us 'to look to the hills for wisdom,' and here we went and nominated Charley Curtis from the plains of Kansas, where a five-foot ashheap would constitute a precipice.