Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey City, tall, sour-faced Boss Frank Hague (who had once predicted that Truman would lose New Jersey by 300,000 votes) now did his best for Harry. Fireworks spouted like golden fountains and for a mile the crowds were jammed 40 deep. In Albany-Tom Dewey's home territory-some 10,000 people stood through an early morning downpour to hear...
Ohio. If popular ex-Governor Frank Lausche returns to the Executive Mansion, Republican Governor Tom Herbert will have only himself to blame. Practical John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, 79, grand old man of modern architecture, thought that the Middle West would be a fine site for the nation's capital because it is "the heart of democratic impulse...
...Even Break." Board President Frank W. Blair was certain that Akeley's dismissal would help debt-ridden Olivet increase its endowments; potential donors, he said, had been "discouraged" by the views of "some of the faculty." Olivet's respected town banker, George C. Tyson, was obviously one of the discouraged. Said he: "I couldn't accuse them of being Communists or Reds but they were . . . pink . . . Seems to be in all the colleges-even permeates the churches. A number of us businessmen of the town were hoping to get an administration that would give the businessmen...
...announcement from ticket, manager Frank O. Lunden came in answer to irate roars from upperclassmen who found themselves located in bottom rows below the 20-yard-line and former "H" men who received seats beyond the end zone...