Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Fuller", Professor Murdock, Sever...
August in Washington, Mr. Chief Justice replied with a letter equally polite. He admitted his departure from the text, but did not think it invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect...
...some time has he needed such identification in Massachusetts. Since 1923 he has been Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He could have become Speaker this year had he chosen, and Governor Fuller once asked him to run for Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there he stayed, vigorously, vigilantly economical. That was why Harvard was so eager to have him as treasurer. The answer to why he would leave...
...House for four years: and in 1928 was the Republican nominee for United States Senator, to be defeated by his Democratic opponent. At the last Republican convention, in Kansas City, he distinguished himself further as secretary of the committee on credentials, and his speech offering Alvan T. Fuller as a vice-presidential possibility was a feature of the gathering...
...Ringing door bells" may, in the case of the Fuller Brush salesman, or the automobile salesman, consist actually of ringing door bells and asking people if they will buy; in the case of the salesman of dye stuffs it will consist of calling on the purchasing agents, shop superintendents, and others who are using and buying dye stuffs. In the case of the salesman of suspension bridges it will mean carefully examining the map of the territory for possible business and calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should...