Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collar, whose reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown Derby's home state was not lacking in stage effect...
...politician and nominal head of the Republican Party, Calvin Coolidge had conferences with Chairman Work, Senator Borah, Frank Waterman Stearns...
...FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...
...poll, Hughes decisively defeated Wilson by a plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner...
...Kirby cartoon of the G. O. P. saying "Tammany!" in the midst of its rogues' gallery has been broadcast as Democratic propaganda. Last week "Frank J. McKenna of Excelsior, Minn., and friends" paid $137.20 to insert it as an advertisement in the pro-Hoover Minneapolis Tribune...