Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that successful businessmen have found politics a suitable field for extra-commercial activity, how might a wealthy manufacturer combine business with politics while running for office...
...Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself to an extra session of Congress for Farm Relief, Senator Nye announced: "I was in doubt before Hoover's acceptance speech, but he has talked frankly. I find it my duty to support...
...trilemma because the Wisconsin Republicans want to be extra certain that they pick the right man this year. Wisconsin is in a fair way to go Democratic with Nominee Smith. The candidates were being judged as potential Smith-beaters as much as Governors...
Therefore the Royal & Imperial bread was publicly spread extra thick, last week, with the best butter: "... very enjoyable stay . . . the Queen and I have appreciated the loyal and enthusiastic reception . . . the true English welcome which we will never forget . . . accorded us by the people of Nottinghamshire...
...from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year-old mother in North Carolina; to begin life again with his wife and child. The wife taught school while waiting...