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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corrupt Practices | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

Nominee Robinson campaigned on. At Chickasha, Okla., he cried: "We plain people are far more numerous than the high-collared crowd! Thank God for the common people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cause and Effect | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Wilbur at 8.10--"Take the Air." Will Mahoney as the good cigar in a rather plain wrapper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Cleveland readers were amazed. Whispers of the stamped envelope scandal were broadcast. The Plain Dealer's story was guarded, vague. What were the facts? Envelopemen assembled them, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Government Contract | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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