Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bartlette Willis, who used to grease the inside of his throat with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose...
...Then we went in to dinner and I was seated with Otto Kahn and with E. E. Loomis of the Morgan Co.? Mr. Kahn brought up the subject of . . . railroad valuation. He said to me, 'Your plan will not work'. . . . And that ended the conversation with Mr. Kahn...
...Well, the dinner was over, but during the course of that dinner Mr. Loomis took his hip flask?a beautiful silver hip flask? out of his pocket and poured out some of that alcoholic stuff. I have had enough experience in the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that in the glass and then he poured in some water?it was too strong to take raw?and he drank that and a lot of similar operations went on around the table...
...will name the man I think is to blame. His name is Andrew W. Mellon. . . . I want to call the President's attention to the fact he has a responsibility over the head of Mr. Mellon and it is therefore up to him to remove Mr. Mellon and . . . to get a Smedley Butlerf or somebody like him who means to enforce...
...invented by anti-Smith Democrats, "Raskobism" contains the following ingredients: one part Roman Catholicism, one part wetness, one part political irregularity (Mr. Raskob used to be a Republican), one part big business. The religious and prohibition issues were not directly focused by the two dry Protestant candidates in Virginia. The stigma of political irregularity had been allayed by Mr. Raskob's work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have...