Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very pleased with what I have observed about Harvard University, having discovered an upstanding group of young men with well balanced interests. You have more athletics, moreover, than are found in German universities and I attribute a fine appearance to the lack of excessive drinking prevalent in European student bodies...
...Taylor went to the big outdoor meeting. But there was no chance for him to make his fine speech there. Glowering more and more darkly, Mr. Taylor did not go to that evening's banquet for the Nominee in Johnson City. Instead, he went to Washington. He was mad. They would see. That Carroll Reece! That Claudius Huston! That *** never mind! Just wait. J. Will Taylor controls more Republican votes than practically any man in Tennessee. Hmph...
...sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor should then rise to praise him. Both wrote out fine speeches. The hour and the Nominee arrived...
...collecting at the outdoor speakers' stand. Radio time would soon be flying. As soon as Mr. Reece finished and before Mr. Taylor could begin, the Nominee stood up, thanked everyone and left the dining room. Almost everyone else left, too. Mr. Taylor remained in glowering loneliness with his fine speech undelivered in his hand...
Second largest donor was National Chairman John J. Raskob. Since Oct. i he had doubled his original contribution of $50,000. In addition, at a party benefit auction last week, Mr. Raskob paid $10,000 for a fine-printed copy of the Smith acceptance speech-a gift for Mrs. Smith. Presumably it is impossible for Chairman Raskob to distinguish between what would be his normal personal expenses and the miscellaneous outlay that he must make personally in the course of running the campaign. Perhaps he has thus informally contributed more than anyone else...