Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest inkling concerning the merger of Agfa, superpotent Chemical combine, German-owned, with the 86-year old U. S. owned...
...Chicago. His cohorts (O'Briens, Mclnerneys, Sullivans, McDonoughs, Quinlans, Whealans) are a legacy from Boss Roger Sullivan. Says Brennan: "The job of boss was a big jackpot. I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." Once, also, he was the only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma's Gore, who lost both eyes as a child...
...Califo-ornia's delegation-elected by six hundred thou-usand voters-in an uncontested pri-mary-present to you-for President of the Uni-ited States-America's gree-eatest administrator in human welfare-Her-r-rber-r-rt Hoo-oover...
...nominate him or I shall know the reason why! Let me warn you now, Senator, you can tell the Hoover crowd that Curtis has got to be nominated to keep the western states in line and if anybody else is put up I shall go before the convention and present his name and make a fight for it, and I think I can put him across...
...charge that he is a Francophile would perhaps not be denied by the present U. S. Ambassador to France, famed Clevelander Myron Timothy Herrick...