Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Kohler, relatively a newcomer to politics, laid no emphatic claim to party fame, Regular or Progressive. He was, however, left unembarrassed by Nominee Hoover, who was at pains not to take sides publicly when he passed through Wisconsin in July. To Regulars, Mr. Kohler could offer the facts that he helped nominate Mr. Hoover at Kansas City; that he is a Big Business Man-$45,000 per annum salary, master of one of the largest U. S. manufactories of bath tubs, lavatories, waterclosets, kitchen sinks (in colors); that he keeps fine horses, flies an airplane, favors the St. Lawrence...
...Progressives he could offer thatKohler, Wis., is a model community; that he is interested enough in public education to have become a regent of the University of Wisconsin, where one of his four boys was educated (two went to Yale, one to M. I. T.); that it is and has been his desire to provide modern comforts to country people...
Thousands of my fellow countrywomen at home, and in France could not have accomplished our work had it not been for Mr. Hoover's advice. It is with great pleasure that I can now offer him my thanks...
...very generous of you, my dear Governor, to thus offer to 'permit' me to take that line in the meeting, but I assure you that I have not heretofore been 'embarrassed' on meeting you, and do not think that I will suffer thus when we meet face to face with this discussion, though I well know your great prowess in debate, and am also aware of my own limitations and defects. ... I venture to remind you that you are not yet President...
...till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child was named...