Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, farmers' friend, recessed Republican, said he was "much impressed" by the Hoover acceptance speech, called the farm relief passages "very heartening," but issued no endorsement of Hooverism...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg sailed last week for France to secure the signatures of foreign powers to his famed multilateral-treaty-outlawing-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy...
When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix...
...then there is Frank Richardson Kent, perhaps the sharpest of them all. Small, compact, quick, incurably enthusiastic and good-humored, he knows the politicians as few of them know themselves. Exposing their humbuggery, dishonesty, pomposity, spells FUN to him. He probably got his taste for political writing from his uncle, Frank A. Richardson, who from the Civil War until 1910 was Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history...
More recondite, subtler problems are in the province (oceanography, hydrography, magnetism, photomicroscopy, solar radiation, glaciology, the aurora australis) of Physicist Frank T. Davies and Oceanographer Ralph F. Shropshire...