Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes. Volstead became legal adviser of the Northwest Prohibition District...
...Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...
Grumpy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank refused to tell M. Moreau what Germans to invite, put him in a quandary. Dr. Schacht was wroth at the known intention of the Allies to convene the bank charter committee in Brussels? hotbed of hostility to the Reich. Presently correspondents learned at the Bank of France that the committee would probably meet in some other city, and it was believed that Dr. Schacht would cooperate on that basis...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...west. Financial news printed in Eastern business newspapers reaches California too stale to be news. And Westerners certainly deserve fresh financial news. So with these things considered, we thought it would be best to inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth...