Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ability-Able man though Governor Smith may be, the people considered Herbert Hoover an abler, on his record as a national executive, to meet the country's problems of Farm Relief, Waterways, Cooperation with Business, the Tariff...
Reasons. It could fairly be said that Governor Smith shared honors with the radio in getting out the largest Presidential vote on record. He was the chief attraction if not the leading issue. Why was he voted so far down by all the people? Republican protests to the contrary notwithstanding, the most frequent and forcible Democratic explanations were...
...whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...
...portrait has always remained in the family. But last week Baron Chesham, Lady Betty's great grandson, decided he could afford to part with it. For Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries offered more than $500,000 on behalf of an anonymous U. S. collector, record price for a Reynolds...
...Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation...