Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political pastor, the late great Winthrop Murray Crane. In 1920 a delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice president. Mr. Crane was dour. "He's done," he said. But Mr. Whiting had distributed copies of Calvin Coolidge's essay "Have Faith in Massachusetts." Over he went and Delegate Whiting had the pleasure of voting to keep him over...
...adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twentysix. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory, I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak...
...like to think that "Billy" Sunday would be afraid to meet the devil in his stamping-ground, New York, and yet it has been so long since he has been here that I would like to know the reason he has stayed away. It would be a good idea to have him debate with Al Smith and if he said he would, he would, not like Dr. John Roach Straton whom I previously admired...
Quotas. The managerial conferences ended with the impression that the Beaver Man is, more than ever, his own manager-in-chief. The Hooverlike scheme of vote quotas for each State to "shoot at" superseded Dr. Hubert Work's idea of specialized drives among women or in the South. Returning to Colorado, his own home State, Chairman Work proceeded to lecture the local G. O. P. Unless it ceased its internal quarreling he predicted "a greatly reduced majority, if any." He said: "You in Colorado have become careless of your party...
...specialist, in 1909. Some still do. However 1909 is pertinent because it was then that Swedish temperance societies polled 1,800,000 votes for absolute prohibition and only 20,000 for modified prohibition. That straw vote scared florid liquor barons white-and gave young Dr. Bratt a keen business idea...