Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, v. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican, v. Franklin W. Cristman, Independent Republican Dry. Senator Wadsworth, the culmination of all that is prosperous and Wet in the G. O. P., is favored to win from the ablest man whom New York Democrats have nominated in the last quarter century (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Cristman will not do much damage outside of Herkimer County...
...judgment seems to have been justified, to express the matter mildly. In 1897 his team beat Harvard, Cornell, Carlisle, Wesleyan, Brown, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, Virginia, Lehigh, Bucknell (twice), Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and Gettysburg. The team won all 15 games played, scoring 517 points to opponents...
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: THE FIRST CIVILIZED AMERICAN-Phillips Russell- Brentano's ($5). French ladies figure...
...private resources to follow a diplomatic career beyond the point which his means justify." Thus, young, able Mr. Dulles is lost to the Department of State after serving with distinction for ten years in Europe and the Near East. Even the New York Times became editorially excited: "A Franklin could live in modest chambers and wear the plainest of clothes while representing an infant republic. But the world- like the American people-demands today that the United States be less niggardly toward its officials abroad." Within the last two years Congress has also decided that something ought to be done...
...which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony, a Man who persists in thinking Commerce with the Sex inevitable-advising him to prefer old Women to young ones in his Amours for seven cogent, ingenious reasons and one technical reason. This letter is signed by Benjamin Franklin...