Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A handful of important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of...
A possible reason for these omissions appeared when, as a native Kansan, Vice President Curtis declared himself Dry. Said he: "I am a strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican...
Politically, President Hoover let Secretary Lamont go because the Chicagoan was of small practical help toward carrying Illinois. Mr. Lamont's Cabinet service was quiet, plodding, unspectacular. The President needs a more active, hustle- bustling figure to dramatize any business recovery, no matter how small, which might come before...
Kansas. To get Vice President Curtis from Los Angeles to his Topeka home in time to vote, a fast Santa Fe train was rerouted through Kansas. Even so the Vice President had to get off at Dodge City and use an absentee ballot.
When wheat grains fell by accident in a kitchen garden, it was discovered that great crops would grow in Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night...