Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the racket worked last week in Hudson County, N. J., bailiwick of Democratic Vice Chairman Frank Hague. Some 200 laborers and families, adherents of Nominees Hoover and Smith stood at adjacent points on a Jersey City street awaiting busses for political picnics. The men-of-the-families had paid $2 for Hoover tickets, $2.50 for Smith tickets. The day lengthened. The sun grew hot. The children made friends, played, squealed, quarreled. The men compared tickets, oaths and boredom. No busses, no picnics came to pass. All, angry, went home...
There was, however, a pause after the 21st boom, which divided the 40 detonations into a 21-gun salute for President William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, and a 19-gun salute for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, both on board the cruiser...
...many an economist, condemning professional speculators, still supports the commodity exchanges. Most recent of important benedictions was the declaration of able Frank J. Cavanaugh of the National Bank of Commerce. Said...
...than a normal number of celebrities. One of them met, shook hands with 22 Smith College girls. He and his wife inspected the ship. He liked the Punch and Judy shows; she, the kitchen. Stewards, officers knew who they were. Many passengers did not. They were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, en route to Paris...
...champion, rugged, cigar-smoking Frank James Marshall had started well, but finished only seventh. José R. Capablanca, Cuban, former world's champion, took second money. Though his final score was less than Bogoljubow's, a moral victory was his, for he had defeated Bogoljubow in their only personal tilt...