Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indiana. The Hoosier taste in corruption seems to have been comparatively dormant lately. Only one unsavory matter was before the Indiana public last week, namely, the apparent possibility that Governor Ed Jackson was planning to liberate his old political friend, D. C. Stephenson, onetime Ku Klux Grand Dragon, now residing in the state penitentiary, supposedly for life, for kidnaping, criminally assaulting and murdering a girl...
...astonished when Mayor Smith's police commissioner, Frank H. Croul, resigned rather than let it be thought that his department had been excessively lax, indulgent or possibly bribed with enormous sums. Mayor Smith called a meeting of civic leaders and city officials. Among those who attended, with her friend Mrs. William Butler of the local W. C. T. U., was Mrs. Henry Ford. To Mayor Smith's dismay, Mrs. Butler arose, denounced his administration roundly and stalked from the room. Nor did Mrs. Ford come forward to be Mayor John Smith's Pocahontas, to protect his political...
Thomas Alva Edison, intimate friend of Henry Ford and Harvey Samuel Firestone, spoke last week of another friend: "He was the most remarkable business man I have ever known...
...most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap Man W. C. Procter, besides many another bigwig. To this array was added the name of John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, miner, friend of trusts, "combinations," high finance...
...Republican Senatorial candidate friendly to President Coolidge lost his race in the Illinois primary. The Republican Senatorial candidate friendly to President Coolidge lost his race in the Pennsylvania primary, and in the Iowa primary, the Oregon, the South Dakota. Last week he lost also in the North Dakota primary. Of all insurgent Republicans none is better pleased than 33-year-old Gerald P. Nye. It was he who beat the President's friend, the President's good friend and one-time campaign manager, Louis Benjamin Hanna, in North Dakota. Mr. Nye, who is already Senator Nye, having been...