Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perusers of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune a fortnight ago found in its rotogravure section a portrait that showed an alert, spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had...
Wiser readers, imperturbed, found a more satisfactory explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further...
As days passed, less was heard about draft, more about miscellaneous candidacies. Thus, U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillette, a Republican, of the inner Massachusetts set, pointed to Charles Evans Hughes as his first choice, to Herbert Hoover as his second.
Friends bowed, more and less impressively, for Charles Evans Hughes, Nicholas Longworth,? Simeon D. Fess, Arthur Capper, William Edgar Borah, George William Norris, Herbert Spencer Hadley, James E. Watson, Hiram Warren Johnson, Frank Bartlette Willis and many another.
Mr. Hearst obtained some 200 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 1904, but was not nominated for President. The next year he was defeated by Tammany for mayor of New York by a bare 3,000 votes. It was said that the count was crooked. In 1906 Mr. Hearst...