Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
...because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice to a Hearst scare in Detroit. Neither the News-Scimitar nor the Lancaster paper interested him. The one he bought to settle a debt; the other to give a friend...
Distinctions are unknown to him. President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...
...present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom he had been...