Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator is said to be in a SANITARIUM up north-and Frank Hampton his secretary continues to wire him that AL SMITH CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE NOMINATED. I think as soon as he learns of what happened at HOUSTON (and it was a plenty) that he will wire the parsons and the wimmen that it would be much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES...
Chile & Peru. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg induced the republics of Chile and Peru to promise that they will resume, at some proximate but unspecified future time, the mutual diplomatic relations which they broke...
...were the defeat and flight of a Liberal President, and the maintenance in power of a Conservative President. Last week a Liberal victory at the forthcoming Nicaraguan election seemed imminent, because the Conservatives are split into two factions, each claiming to be the "Historic Conservative Party." Therefore General Frank Ross McCoy charged by President Coolidge with the supervision of the Nicaraguan election, ruled that neither Conservative faction would be allowed to present a Presidential Candidate representing "The Historic Conservative Party" and intimated in the strongest terms his hope that they will reunite and support a single candidate against the Liberals...
Multilateral. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg was reported by a State Department official, last week, to be "giving some thought" to a project for unanimous signing, at Paris next fall, of his Multilateral Treaty "outlawing war as an instrument of national policy." Germany, France and Italy sent notes last week, telling their willingness to sign, and similar responses were expected from other invited states...
There is 18-year-old Frank Wykoff of Glendale High School in southern California, who defeated all comers in the 100-metre trials and four times equalled the Olympic record (10⅝ seconds). Charles Paddock, whose amateur status is being investigated, was too slow to qualify in the 100-metre dash, but he finished second to Charles Borah, also of California, in the 200-metre finals and made the team...