Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver, hammering out the similes and metaphors and phrases that went into the making of the "Cross of Gold" speech. Several people testified that Bryan had his plans for capturing the Democratic nomination in 1896 laid long in advance, had asked at least one delegate to the convention, Colonel Franklin Pierce Morgan, a newspaperman, to vote for him, had secured for himself the last place on the list of speakers in preparation for the great dramatic effect which was to nominate...
Behind the political scenes at Paris a fierce controversy was waged over the composition of the French debt mission to the U. S. which is to sail in September. M. Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Relations Committee, a famed and able diplomat, was most eager to head the delegation. He was supported by Premier Painlevé and by many other good friends, who pointed out that his marvelous English vocabulary and diction, equaling his French eloquence, made him preeminently suitable. Stolid, squat Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, agreed; but he did not and would not agree...
...pointed out (not by the President) that, besides these two Presidents and Mr. Coolidge, there has been only one other New England President* - Franklin Pierce. Of the four, Mr. Coolidge had least, in the way of early advantages and least in the way of fame when he went into office, but he is the only one who (if he lives to fill out his term) will have served more than four years in the White House...
...TIME Franklin, Mass. New York, N. Y. July 13, 1925 Sirs...
Early Thursday, however, Boy Scouts searching along the creek came upon the boy's bicycle and clothes on the bank. Divers at once went to work to locate the body, and after hours of effort it was found by Frank Gearing, chauffeur for Mrs. Franklin Townsend of Albany, who repeatedly risked his own life in attempts to bring it to the surface, so tightly was the body enmeshed in underwater weeds. A rowboat and grappling irons were brought overland from Kinderhook Lake and the body was secured...