Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"A very few bad appointments would destroy this [favorable] view of Mr. Hoover in the South and wreck the very substantial foundation for a strong Republican party which has been begun in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. . . ." Adroit, he added: "Unless a very high-class Republican can be found for...
To help Mr. Hoover, Col. Horace A. Mann of Tennessee, chief undercover Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover...
Robert Church, Memphis millionaire, dictator of the "Lincoln Belt" which stretches darkly from Missouri, north and south, through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio. Toward the close of the 1928 campaign all but six of the 25 leading Negro newspapers were calling for Smith's election. Puzzled and worried, Nominee...
The lingo of the steersman seasoned, perhaps, with a spicy bit of Billinsgate will comprise part of the academic career of Harvard coxswains during the next few weeks. Not that the coxes will commit to memory the right thing to say at the right time in the right place to...
Once there were only a few men fools enough to suffer. Then came this Athletics-for-All Policy. Where one man hobbled over the Bridge with his limbs red with Mercurochrome, now there are ten. Where one man went mad learning signals, there are dozens.