Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked...
...California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
...front cover) Monster demonstrations for Smith along the Atlantic seaboard were the most interesting topic of the week for Democrats (see p. 13). Did those great crowds mean votes - or curiosity? Was Demos what Alexander Hamilton called it, "a great beast," or was it a thinking creature of articulate enthusiasms? Republicans also pondered the Smith ovations, both as campaign phenomena and with reference to a problem of their own. What were Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against a genuine...
Last year the clubs took a trip through St. Louis, Georgia, and the Atlantic seaboard during the Christmas vacation. This year's tentative itinerary includes Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago...