Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sept. 24 issue of your magazine, the article does not state to which party Senator Fess refers when he says, "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals . . ." but in view of past events, I take it to be the Republican Party...
Came also, during the week, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, carrier of a grave governmental affair already begun-the U. S. reply to Britain and France about their new "secret" naval understanding. President Coolidge gave his approval and soon there was a great clicking of cable instruments as the Note, although it was soon to be made public (see p. 16), was gravely despatched in code, decoded at the other end and checked back by cable...
...clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol, to sit from 12 to 2; then the luncheon recess and the one real meal of the day (meat, vegetables...
...Among all the men available for that place, I think Mr. Hoover far the most competent."-Elihu Root, sometime Senator, Secretary of War and Secretary of State...
...Cleveland, National Committeeman Maurice Maschke said she was "misguided." In wet New Jersey, Senator Walter Evans Edge assured the public that Mrs. Willebrandt would make no visit there. From wet Wisconsin to wet headquarters in wet Chicago went a letter from Benjamin Fuelleman, a State committeeman. "Unless Mrs. Willebrandt is muzzled," wrote Mr. Fuelleman, "Mr. Hoover is sure to go down to defeat. ... If she fails to do this [return to Washington, be silent], President Coolidge should call for her resignation. . . . We cannot do it if we have to carry around 'an old man of the sea' such...