Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Secretary a "Santa Claus" to large corporations, objected particularly to refunds made to the U. S. Aluminum Co., controlled by Mellon interests. Claiming that Aluminum Co. refunds totalled $1,267,426, Congressman Garner said: "Mr. Mellon, this grand Secretary that you hear so much about today, this man who will never perish from the thoughts of the American people when we are gone and forgotten, this man sits on that side of the table as Secretary of the Treasury and if reports are correct that he owns the Aluminum Co., Mr. Mellon, the citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa., sits...
...they must to all men of strong, successful growth, completion and fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said...
...floor of the U. S. Senate last week stood Senator William Edgar Borah, fighting-man from Idaho. The business before the Senate was the ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, already signed by some 60 of the world's nations. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Borah had steered it through legislative tangles, had secured for it the right of way over the Cruiser Bill (see col. 2). Crowds gathered in the galleries; political correspondents prepared to hear and to record history. The Kellogg treaty was ready to go over in bursts of Borahtorical splendor...
...radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of Minister of Interior...