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Word: presidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the thinning blue ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered last week in Portland, Me., for its 63rd encampment, throbbed a momentous, oft-recurring question. President Hoover, who loves the South, and 31 State Governors, had recommended a grand joint reunion of the G. A. R. and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: They Were Wrong | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Last month Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lagniappe | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

3) Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, onetime (1928) candidate for Vice President, downright, not too bright, given to thunderous wrath.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

First of the shipbuilders summoned was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

With the finger of suspicion pointed at the shipbuilders by the President's remarks, Mr. Bardo last week made answer:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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