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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term bootlegger, with all that it means and all that it implies, is known even to the children in our public schools...
...Easton, Pa., a Mrs. Francis Gillespie made known that she, her six sisters and three brothers, all children of the late Irish-born Daniel Timony, plus their husbands, wives and 14 children of voting age, would all vote for Smith (34 votes). Next day, a Mrs. Martha Griffiths of Williamstown, Pa., aged 87, announced 87 votes for Hoover-her eleven children, 32 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 33 sons, daughters, grandsons-and granddaughters...
Methodists know that in the standard edition of Wesley's Journal, he wrote about himself that, as a young man "I had no notion of inward holiness" but lived "habitually and for the most part very contentedly in some or other known sin." Later, honest, forthright John Wesley became a High Church Episcopalian Clergyman, finally espousing Methodism. At the apogee of his potency, Pastor Wesley traveled some 5,000 miles a year, preaching and founding Methodist churches...
...theory and a fact. The theory was that the price of newsprint to U. S. publishers was $65 a ton. The fact was that association members were making deals with such major users as Publisher William Randolph Hearst for less than $60 a ton. When the fact became known to the theory, the Newsprint Export went up in smoke. The Hearst contracts went into court...
...many thousands of dollars The Fellowship Forum collected during the campaign to carry on its work will never be precisely known. Its drive was unceasing. One week before Election Day, Editor James S. Vance sent through the mails a "final appeal" for funds. Many of the letters were despatched to northern Republicans with Park Avenue addresses. "I want financial help," wrote Editor Vance, "that will enable me to single shot Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Texas, and turn a probability into a certainty...