Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest member of Congress is George Hamilton Combs Jr., a minister's son from Missouri. Now aged 29, he represents the 367,846 inhabitants of Jackson County. He is a Democrat. Last week he arose in the House to make one of his infrequent speeches. It was a speech addressed to his fellow Democrats, whom he flayed roundly for their post-election faultfinding with National Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob...
Check in bank, Senator Couzens returned to his favorite sport, Mellon-baiting. Said he: "This is a concrete piece of evidence of mismanagement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton's time...
Married. Elizabeth Brite Shevlin of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed Yale Footballer Thomas L. Shevlin; to Paul Morton Smith, son of the present Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the famed Manhattan banker; in Greenwich, Conn., secretly last April, when Mr. Smith was a Yale undergraduate...
...they did-300 Command-Aires,† 500 American Eagles, 500 Travel Airs, 200 Swallows. Fairchild and Curtiss made large contracts for plane deliveries. Scarcely was there a plane manufacturer who did not book immediate orders. Kreider-Reisner Challengers were popular,*as were Hamilton Metalplanes, Mohawk Pintos, Monarchs, Mono-coupes, Advance Wacos, and Consolidated Husky Juniors. Customers for the most part were young men. Air transport managers-for Transcontinental, National, Boeing, Western Air Express, Pan-American-examined the huge passenger planes -Fords, Fokkers, Loenings, Boeings, Keystones, Ryans, Stinson-Detroiters...
President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...