Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going back to his office, Mr. Mellon had still to ponder the problem of who should be appointed as the new chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The incumbent, David H. Blair, had resigned. Among candidates for the vacancy were Charles R. Nash of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon's State; E. C. Alvord, Mr. Mellon's legislative adviser; Chairman Benjamin...
This year, many have been the tribulations of Kentucky Republicans in trying to collect what they consider their just patronage reward for carrying their State for the Hoover-Curtis ticket. They tried and failed to squeeze Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, into the Hoover Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. Kentucky's Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. produced a candidate for Solicitor General, then one for Assistant Attorney General, but both offices went to other men. Kentucky's patronage demands de-scended to an appeal to President Hoover to appoint...
...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...
...slogan as 'Safety First.' That is not very thrilling to the spirit of youth. If he had said 'Live Dangerously' or 'Adventure Greatly' he might have caught the eye and heart of a younger generation. ... If he had promised husbands for surplus women, or a tax on bachelors ... or State-endowed 'talk-ies.' he might have aroused their interest...
...remains the favorite in the Derby. Always in England the Derby vies in importance with any political event. This year the election was almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...