Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scripps-Howard newspapers; the Christian Science Monitor; Political Commentators Arthur Brisbane, William Hard, Frank R. Kent; Presidents Wilbur of Leland Stanford and Angell of Yale...
...Minnesota's 24, New Hampshire's eight, Alaska's six, six from the Philippines, two from the Virgin Islands. Each and everyone was to vote for Candidate Smith. In Manhattan it became known that Candidate Smith would formalize his candidacy the week following Easter. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Smith campaign manager. He will run for Congress, hoping to be White House spokesman in the House of Representatives...
Political commentators in the U. S., notably the late Frank I. Cobb of the Dem ocratic New York World, have often urged responsible Cabinet Government for this country. In England, Cabinet executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...
...most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, holds third place with 1,727 votes, while, Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, is fourth with 1,071. Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland. Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, and Thomas I. Walsh, of Montana, are close contenders, with 809, 656, and 491 votes respectively. Charles Curtis, of Kansas, with 163, Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, with 152, and A. Victor Donaliey, with 114, also of Ohio, trailed...