Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose privilege and duty it was to notify Candidate Willis how Cleveland felt, was not throaty Col. Thompson. It was a quiet, bald, astute, elderly person named Maurice Maschke, who for years, in his panelled study on the heights near Cleveland, has manipulated the clumsy fellows down in the city who call themselves politicians. Mr. Maschke is Ohio's National Republican Committeeman. When he wants to see the seeker or holder of an office, he is not above paying a call downtown, downstate or even down in Washington. In 1908, when Theodore E. Burton (now a Representative) was unexpectedly...
...Hoover. While the crucial preliminary to his larger affairs was progressing in Ohio, Candidate Hoover got off a train at Key West, Fla. "I will make no active personal campaign," he said, "but will devote myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had a hook baited, paid out his line and before sunset had caught five fat dolphin, "one of which," remarked an alert news-gatherer, "looked remarkably like Candidate Willis." As a flashing, gamey kingfish was being drawn in on the Hoover line, up swirled a shark and tore the prize away. Some...
Application can be made in writing to James De Normandie, 43 Randolph Hall, or in person at the Lampoon Building between 2 and 3 o'clock today and tomorrow. Stag tickets will be on sale up to the night of the dance itself...
Most effective of all was vice president Philip Murray of the United Mine Work ers, a youthful person with a quiet voice, who talked for three hours to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee about injunctions, evictions,, bloodshed, rape, coal prices and the cost of living. When Mr. Murray was through, no non-union mine operator answered him. The Committee voted to recommend a Senate investigation...
Headmaster Richard M. Gummere of William Penn Charter School: ". . .A much more reflecting and original person. ... A fine animal set to run a splendid race if his owners and trainers are conscientious...