Word: paperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Fairfield Whiting, 72 Holyoke, Mass. paper manufacturer, great friend and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of Commerce to Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Holyoke. At the 1920 Republican Convention Paperman Whiting voted Coolidge for President on all ten ballots, was instrumental in getting his friend the Vice-Presidential nomination...
Thereafter the business of the 20th Republican National Convention terminated briefly. Charles Irwin, an old news paperman, seasoned in U. S. politics since the forgotten days when young Boies Penrose was a Libertarian, watched the dele gates file out of the Stadium. "The Dutch," commented he, "have taken Holland...