Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
...increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election of the President and Vice President, "obliterating the useless and antiquated Electoral College." All this Senator Norris set forth in an open letter to a California friend, by way of letting people know that he was clambering on no man's bandwagon...
Four years ago, Publisher Hearst entertained another Mayor of New York, his stout friend John F. Hylan. When he got home, Mayor Hylan described the wonders of Hearstland to the peepul of New York, as follows...
...midnight they came. Youssoupov was admitted by the servants' stairway. He embraced my father, crying: 'Ah, my dear friend,' and took him away...
...played golf. Sturdy Maurice McCarthy Jr., of Georgetown, well recovered from the stage fright he suffered when given Walter Hagen as a playing partner in the National Open, drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...