Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practiced medicine and where, at Pueblo, he founded a hospital. The choice of a more easterly generalissimo for the G. 0. P. campaign had been expected, since the ticket is California-and-Kansas and since the sharpest competition between the two parties is expected to centre in the urban East. But the Work-for-Chairman movement was many months old. Dr. Work was the first Hooverizer in the Cabinet...
...Stay East, young man," counselled potent Meatpacker F. Edson White, president of Armour and Co., principal speaker at the Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding calamity howlers, he compared yearly incomes of farmers in the Middle West with the national average. His comparison: Nebraska $4,010; South Dakota, $3,356; Iowa, $4,180; Kansas, $3,020; U. S. average...
Charles F. Wren, of Los Angeles, is the guiding spirit and president of the Pickwick System, who has consistently pushed motor stage service across from West to East, and who has sponsored the many original features of equipment and service begun by this company...
...possible, therefore, to divide the more influential of the guests of Financier Jones into two classes: 1) lean, hungry Senators and Representatives from the South and West, leaders in Democratic and near-Democratic states, and 2) jovial, well-fed city bosses from the North and East. The issue between the two groups was sharply drawn, the South v. the Cities, Dry v. Wet, Protestant v. Catholic, the Field v. Candidate Smith. Almost for the first time in party history, the bosses were united on a candidate and promised to stampede the convention...
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 hell for the man who only goes along with the tide. I wish . . . we would not have to listen to Vare of Philadelphia name the Republican nominee...