Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's example of the use of a congressional frank and its effect on the postal deficit: in June Senator William Edgar Borah made a speech in behalf of the debenture plan of farm relief, against the Hoover plan (now-adopted). It sounded politically good to the Democrats whose National Committee secured Senator Borah's permission to use it and the Borah frank for distribution. The Democrats' only expense was for reprinting the speech. The Democratic National Committee sent out 1,000,000 copies to husbandmen throughout the land. Declared Senator Borah: 'That...
...meeting of 25,000 (including many a Gentile) who jammed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and roared approval of a tactful telegram read on behalf of President Herbert Hoover (see p. 11). Slouching forward to keynote from the platform came famed Friend-of-Oppressed-Peoples William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Said...
...Passengers to Germany numbered 17. With them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress...
Eugene Victor Debs came with Socialism. George Spoor and E. H. Ahmet took pictures that moved ("Essanay") of Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin. Eddie Foy tried to stop the fire-panic at the Iroquois Theatre. Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters got an audience denied in the East. Three young businessmen began Rotary...
...last week as a merchandise wrapper: "Mr. Alfred E. Smith, ex-candidate for the presidency of the Democratic Party, has secured one-fifth interest in the management of the Giant baseball team . . . and, according to unconfirmed reports, he will be chosen the chief player of that team."- Senator William Edgar Borah...