Word: shavers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics, became international as a Red Cross man with H. P. Davison, became national as a Democratic angel. He was opposed to placing all the advertising through one agency. On money matters, he was a little "hard-boiled." But, at fitful intervals during October, he (or Chairman Clem Shaver, through James W. Gerard, Democratic National Treasurer) paid to Van Patten Inc. $50,000 because, according to the latter, various publishers were demanding cash...
Charles G. Dawes announced his intention of retiring to his cool retreat at Evanston, Chicago suburb, during the summer recess of the Senate. Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the Democratic National Committee during its disastrous fall campaign, announced that he had raised $250,000 of the amount necessary to wipe out the campaign deficit of $260,000 which the Democrats had incurred; also that he did not believe that John W. Davis would be a candidate for the next Democratic nomination...
Chairman Clem Shaver (a fake one) bought a map of the Confederate States "to figure the electoral votes of John W. Davis. . . . But this map doesn't show Kentucky!" cried the mummer...
...Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jesse H. Jones, finance expert of the same Committee, George W. Olvany, boss of Tammany, all rushed down to the harbor in Manhattan to say farewell to the French Liner Paris. Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davis...
...show signs of ability to lead the Party out of the wilderness. Mr. McAdoo, back on the Pacific, is already reported to be lining up his forces for a new attack in 1928-the first step of which, it is said, will be an attempt to remove Clem L. Shaver as Democratic National Chairman. In the East, Governor Al Smith has a claim because he rewon his state by 100,000 votes and ran some 900,000 ahead of Davis. In the Middle West, Governor A. Victor Donahey of Ohio became a hero by a similar feat. But can either...