Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...
Senator McMaster is a farmer's friend. He sits among the Republicans in the Senate but he warned the Republicans before Christmas that he would ask them to talk tariff reduction. He carried out his threat last week, demanding tariff benefits for farmer, denouncing as "sophistry." "sham," "fraud" all arguments to the effect that farmers are adequately benefited by current tariff schedules...
...there was a tax bill before the Senate. It developed that the Democratic and farmers' friend strategy was to get the Senate on record generally in favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
...dear Ambassador, our honored and trusted friend, may your way back to the country which loves you and expects you be smooth under your feet...
Newsgatherers drew from Amir Amanullah, last week, an intimation that he plans to visit "the chief capitals of Europe" on his present tour, and may possibly extend it by a brief trip to the U. S. When an English correspondent asked, "Is Your Majesty a friend of Great Britain?" shrewd Amir Amanullah replied: "I will answer that question after I have spoken to Sir Austen Chamberlain" (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). Attached to the royal Afghan suite, last week, were several businesslike, efficient secretaries who carried data upon the many, varied and picturesque opportunities which exist in Afghanistan...