Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank A. Rapp's letter rapping Rogers [TIME, Nov. 14] reminds me of a story...
President Coolidge and Mr. Sproul stepped into one motor, Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Major General William Gray Price of the Pennsylvania National Guard into the next motor. It was a stag affair. Mrs. Coolidge was not present. Within the heavy portals of the Union League Club, some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William...
...nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native son who might loom was Andrew Mellon, but he was not likely to choose to loom. In Ohio, Senator Frank Willis and Speaker Nicholas Longworth are favorite sons but presidential waifs. Added together and multiplied by five they would not loom...
...problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
That such a warning is immediately needed is at least doubtful. The value and interest of his statement lies in its frankness. Such reasoning, brought home to the mass of the population in any country, would do more towards a permanent peace than all the tea-parties given by the English Speaking Union. It is a reasoning which might be applied not only to the United States and England but to any other two nations or groups of nations. More cogent than all appeals to past friendships and obligations, is a frank statement as to the result,-- win or lose...