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Personality & Family: Short and stocky, he is 68 but looks younger, has greying blond hair and pale blue eyes behind heavy spectacles, is a lively conversationalist and good orator, with the fine Tuscan accent that is highly respected in Italy. To give his children a normal family life, he has...
Lost World. The reader first meets Adlai as a child sharing a platform with his grandfather-namesake (Vice President under Cleveland) and William Jennings Bryan. Like many another born orator, Adlai had no taste for the rhetoric of others, and he slept soundly through Bryan's bombinations.
On a personal basis California's Goodie Knight marveled at "what it is that could cause so many people to express so much devotion. This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald. He is not an orator. He is not a politician in the sense of...
A bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply...
Home Run in Heaven. He was the nation's favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages...