Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Frank O. Lowden, whom Mr. Peek backed strenuously but ineffectively for the Republican Presidential nomination, would bolt to Nominee Smith has been the wish-fathered hope of disgruntled farmers and opportunistic Democrats. They know that Mr. Lowden, farmer's advocate, is disgusted with the Republican farm plank and have pestered him for an insurgent declaration. Last week he was persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided...
...what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
...coalition of opposition parties claims to represent 80% of the electorate. Six days prior to the polling date, they cabled to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, the last of several fruitless appeals for U.S. intervention, declaring that in the event of refusal "your excellency's desire for a pure and fair election in Panama is impossible to realize...
Like another newspaper chain owner, famed Frank Ernest Gannett, Publisher Block was trained in the quiet city of Elmira, in the "southern tier" of New York State. He went to Public School No. 1, and in his summer vacations he did odd jobs, ran errands for the Sunday Telegram...
Thirty-three years ago he quit Elmira and advanced confidently upon Manhattan, to the offices of a Frank Richardson, then acting as the New York representative of many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...