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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Leach's advertising agent, placing advertisements for Glenwood Ranges, wrote as follows to the Boston Review: "It is Mr. Leach's understanding that in addition to this advertising you will publish in your news columns a story concerning his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor and also publish additional items each week until the primaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...scheme was made public by General John H. Sherburne of Brookline, Mass., one of Manufacturer Leach's competitors for the nomination. General Sherburne cried out about "a scandal which would be comparable with the scandals in Illinois and Pennsylvania. . . . In a year when our supreme effort is being directed toward the carrying of Massachusetts for Herbert Hoover by an emphatic majority, we can ill afford a repetition of the Vare or Smith disgraces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Manufacturer Leach replied: ". . . The Glenwood product advertising is placed through an agency and I know nothing about it. We have followed the same procedure in placing Glenwood goods advertising as we have in the past." He said his advertising agent had evidently been "very silly" and that he had "vigorously called him to account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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