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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no specification as to dice, poker chips etc.-possibly the dear old friend did not know that one could gamble with anything but cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, farmers' friend, recessed Republican, said he was "much impressed" by the Hoover acceptance speech, called the farm relief passages "very heartening," but issued no endorsement of Hooverism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Statements | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Carl Schurz Vrooman, of Bloomington, Ill. (hometown of the Pantagraph), an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in both Wilson administrations, a farmer's friend. Reason: Tammany. ("It double-crossed Wilson, Cox and Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Film. In Manhattan, Hooverizers viewed a first showing of The Master of Emergencies, pieced together by the Nominee's friend, Author Will Irwin, from some ten miles of miscellaneous cinema films showing Hoover activities since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Into Action | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Prostitution: "Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented mind. I hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mud Pie | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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