Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition, he said: "I cannot speak for Tennessee, but in our State [Ohio] every man or woman who wants a drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public...
...Nominee, and for a long wait until his speech came in over the radio from the Boston Arena. It was after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President Wilson gave in marriage from the White House) had spoken.? So had Senator David Ignatius Walsh, rocking the building with the announcement that Senator Norris had come out for Nominee Smith (see p. 16). The cheering on the appearance...
...years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance...
...took the white race from 1492 to 1849 to get insecurely across the continent. From New York to Los Angeles today by rail takes 3 days and 11 and ¼ hours. By bus it can be done in 5 days and 14 hours. By automobile it recently took 4 days 8 hours and 47 minutes. By foot it has been done (in the "Pyle Marathon") in 23 days 21 hours. By boat, through the Panama Canal, it can beautifully and agreeably be accomplished in about 17 days...
...Francisco hospital, again reached the front pages: "No, I will not be a philanthropist. It would only create an other army of grafters. Perhaps I will raise trees. Even if I'm rich now, I don't believe any woman is going to get me" In March, 1927, while the case was on appeal, he became the fifth husband of Mrs. Hersee Gross. At the Fairmont Hotel. San Francisco, he "wasn't so stuck on the highfalutin suite of rooms." But the Desert Rat was temporarily in funds...