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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following quotation, reported or invented by Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the relation between Prosperity and Prohibition in the feelings of the midwest: " 'I don't like Prohibition, but I'm going to vote for Hoover because I'd rather eat than drink...
Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
...fight this coming year for the right of a citizen to have the care of a licensed osteopath, if he wants one, when he becomes a patient in any hospital or other public welfare institution supported by taxes or receiving state aid. They elected as their next president Dr. D. L. Clark of Denver; to succeed Dr. George V. Webster of Carthage...
...Lord & Thomas & Logan's board chairman is another onetime head of the Shipping Board-Albert D. Lasker...
...told what he would do if he were president: "Get Henry Ford to serve in my cabinet . . . call out the army and navy, yes sir, and I'd close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...