Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...
...House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden was her choice for the Republican nomination. But her father was Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Party regularity is her creed...
...closest elder friend. A heart attack smote General Trotter last week, rendering him unconscious for several hours. Instantly Hunter Wales despatched a native runner to the two Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance in six hours flat, over ghastly roads. They found H. R. H. sitting at the bedside of General Trotter, where he remained all night...
...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...
...most compelling negative reasons (i.e. against Hoover) I have for voting for Mr. Smith is that I don't like the former's crowd, as somebody has put it. I can't help contrasting "I owe my nomination to no man or group of men," which I believe to be absolute truth, with Senator Norris' statement that at the Kansas City convention it was Vare who at the Psychological moment put Hoover across--which I also believe to be absolute truth. James F. Concagh...