Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers themselves, urged them to compromise their differences. Senator McNary was blown around to President Hoover's view, but his committee voted eight to six to ignore the President's objections and argue out debentures in full senate. President Louis John Taber of the Grange, good Hoover friend though he was, said: "Our opinion as to the workability of the debenture plan has not been changed...
...Gastonia was named for William Gaston (1788-1844)-Princeton graduate (1796), member of the 13th and 14th Congresses from North Carolina, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
...corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron Man" might have had common sense enough not to wave two red rags before two bulls. That was exactly what he did by so much as mentioning the "corridor" to France (friend of Poland) or alluding to "colo-nies" in the presence of Britain (which holds East Africa as a mandate). Not only did Dr. Schacht render the Allied delegates speechless with indignation, but he antagonized the U. S. representatives, who pride themselves on being "business-men" and who grew quite heated...
Women of the U. S. who like to put a drop of Coty perfume behind their ears were all approval, last week, when gallant Perfumer-Publisher Francois Coty founded a new newspaper, The Evening Friend-of-the-People (L'Ami du Peuple du Soir), and took up editorial cudgels in defense of the U. S. cinema industry, which sorely needs a champion in France...
Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from the U. S. since the oil scandals, has "cleaned up" some 50 millions in Europe, said a Denver friend last week...