Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibitionists nominated a man named William F. Varney, of Rockville Center, N. Y., for President of the U. S., but reserved the right to shift to Herbert C. Hoover instead of Mr. Varney should Mr. Hoover care to state specifically that .5% is as strong as he thinks liquor should ever be permitted to be in the U. S. A man named James A. Edgerton, of Alexandria, Va., was nominated for Vice President...
Georgia's Republican politicians rebutted these tales, and many another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...
These polished words of Lord Birkenhead-typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
Died. William F. Raskob end, 19, son of John J. Raskob; near Salem...
...Manhattan, Horace F. Poor, 50, president of the Garfield National Bank, crawled out of a sick bed and wobbled to an open window. Once there, he made as if to leap out, down to the street four floors below him. As he did so, Ella Randolph, his nurse, scuttled across the room to stop him. Just as Horace Poor toppled over, she grabbed his ankles and held them so that he hung down head first, looking into the hot crowded street and waving his arms...