Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...
Landing in Manhattan from the Leviathan, last week, Pact Man Frank Billings Kellogg said: "Undoubtedly the Pact is working. It is so considered in Europe, I know. Secretary Stimson's action was entirely timely and proper...
...State, War & Navy building office labelled "Assistant Secretary of War" strode a tall, straight, handsome man from Tulsa, Okla. Briskly he paced a hundred feet along the stone-flagged corridor, turned sharply into another office labelled "Secretary of War." There, surrounded by flowers, furled flags, miniature airplanes, trench equipment, antique cannon and the portraits of former War Secretaries, many hands wrung his, many voices babbled congratulations...
...Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier considering suggestions than issuing orders. 2) Not for many a year will the rank & file of the Army have known a Secretary so much of their own kind...
...certain Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat of any Senator dictate the selection...