Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, are you Wet like Senator Bingham, or Dry like Mr. Curtis, or both like Mr. Hoover?
In Congress: Because they liked him personally, Republican Senators in 1929 chose him as their floor leader when Charles Curtis vacated that difficult job for the easier vice presidency. But he led only a nominal party majority which insurgent bolters repeatedly turned into a voting minority. Officially the President'...
Governor Roosevelt Al Smith Vice President Curtis Bernarr Macfadden Speaker Garner Mrs. Roosevelt & children Theodore Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan James Aloysius Farley Theodore Roosevelt Jr. William Gibbs McAdoo Samuel Instill William Randolph Hearst Senator Reed Smoot The Forgotten Man Senator Huey Long Eugene Meyer Vincent Astor Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole...
If an uninvited guest had mingled with that company, first amusing them with witticisms but finally enacting a Poe-like "Masque of the Red Death," there would have been havoc throughout the land. Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life...
Last week's party in Philadelphia was the third held in the North. Social as the meeting was, there were speeches. At a luncheon given by Publisher Curtis the members shouted their applause when Hugh Bancroft of the Wall Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic...