Word: folgerism
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...Folger Shakespeare Library...
...York the It Pays to Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed for the occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
...Republicans have made in a generation, John Hamilton took over the machinery of the GOP. An immense job of reconstruction was before him. Next afternoon he began work at a snappy session of the new Republican National Committee. Gone from the committee were such old familiar faces as Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Mark L. Requa of California, Frank L. Smith of Illinois. In their places were Young Guardsmen. Without saying boo, the committee elected John Hamilton its chairman. Without ceremony he named an executive committee of 16 to meet this week in Topeka...
...appear so loath-some that no clear-thinking modern woman would venture to have her name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano in the East Room. The task of upholding patriotism will then fall to the lower elements in the population. There is always the Massachusetts legislature...
...attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than ten are conceded to him by the opposition. Last week before the Senator arrived...