Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, his body ponderable. His hat, his collar, his necktie are all in the grand old tradition. The only small thing about him is the eyes, which peer keenly and patriotically through pince nez. Crowning all, he comes from a pivotal state. That usually accurate and sometimes acid correspondent, Frank R. Kent, has written of Indiana's Watson: "By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any state has sent to Washington in years-a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker." But Senators pay small attention...
...Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
...revolutions broke out in Mexico last week on the very day before U S. President Hoover's Inauguration, correspondents heard a flustered official of the U S State Department exclaim that Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, on his recent visit to Washington, certainly did not give Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg any reason to think that Mexico was on the brink of revolution. Curiously enough, the only U. S. daily which let this indiscreet admission into cold type was New York's arch-Republican Herald-Tribune...
...American Trust Co., now, after many mergers, San Francisco's large independent bank ($273,776,849 in deposits). Like Giannini, Mr. Drum is a Papal Knight. He is most famed for his starry-domed marble bungalow atop the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. Notable also is able Frank B. Anderson, board chairman of Bank of California; his chief idiosyncrasy, a fondness for donkeys. Paul Shoup, President of Southern Pacific Co. also stands high among the 585,300 citizens who maintain San Francisco's position as first financial city of the West...
...FRANK R. KENT, Vice President of the Baltimore Sun: "The death of Briton Hadden is a real loss. To have conceived the idea back of TIME and to have successfully put it into effect was a constructive achievement and a public service...