Word: frankforts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . You say "the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort [Kentucky]." This capitol, completed in 1909, cost...
...THOMPSON Secretary, Frankfort Chamber of Commerce Frankfort...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...
...Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano stool and walked his fingers up and down the keyboard until the neighbors poked their heads out the windows and shook threatening fists. He was a baby then, just a pianist...
Other German territories seeking additional loans: Berlin, Hanover, Saxony, Prussia, Baden, Munich, Breslau, Frankfort, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Essen, Dusseldorf, Hagen...