Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recording-Secretary Mrs. Jeanette C. Beach of the W. C. T. U. of New York tried to help Hoover carry that state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...Misrepresentations"-George N. Peek, the farmers'-friend to whom was entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end that the farm vote was held for Hoover by "misrepresentations," "fraud...
Even before election, correspondents were eyeing friends and associates of Mr. Hoover in order to foresee his Cabinet. After the election, thousands of speculative words were penned. No one knew, but a good many thought he would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone thought that the next Attorney-General would not be the incumbent who is Mr. Coolidge's good friend, John Garibaldi Sargent; but would be Mr. Hoover's good friend William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan,* who is now assistant to Mr. Sargent. For Secretary of State, Mr. Hoover would...
...when Thomas Jefferson said on the death of his immigrant friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours in 1817, "No man ever labored more zealously or honestly ... he has left abundant monuments," could he have suspected that one of the monuments would be valued no years later at $308,000,000. For in 1802 son Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours began concocting friable messes of gunpowder in a squat stone house on Brandywine Creek, Delaware. Son Eleuthere Irenee had learnt his chemistry from Lavoisier.* clarified, refined, improved his formulae, passed them through to great-great-grandson Lammot du Pont...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...