Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden's 1928 boom has been a muffled one, as was his 1920 boom. Now as then his friends have been working with quiet skill assembling delegates while he holds back in dignified semi-detachment. In 1920, Mr. Lowden was a Business Man; now he is the Farmer's Friend, for reasons which it is hoped will also persuade Business...
...Chapman '31, and H. C. Friend '31, will support the affirmative of this question, while R. B. Cook '31, and G. R. Holden '31, will maintain the negative, and the audience will act as judge...
While passing through the Chapultepec Gardens, Mexico City, on his way to a bull fight, General Alvaro Obregon, onetime President of Mexico, one-armed Presidential candidate, good friend of President Calles*was halted by a smallish auto (Essex) swinging in front of his powerful limousine...
...James Stillman, silent president of the National City Bank of New York, tranquil friend of a few intimates speaks: "[During the Gold Panic of 1894 the U. S. Treasury begged [J. P.] Morgan for 50 millions, which he refused, thundering 'Impossible!' Then they came to me and I went 'round to see what I could do: He was greatly upset and overcharged, nearly wept, put his head in his hands and cried: 'They expect the impossible!' So I calmed him down and told him to give me an hour and by that time I cabled...
Every innuendo is tabulated, annotated, put with the other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid...