Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loew's State--"Our Dancing Daughters...
...Roosevelt '04 was yesterday nominated by the Democratic party to succeed Governor Smith as governor of New York state. It was with great difficulty that the Democrats finally secured Mr. Roosevelt's acceptance of the nomination...
While an undergraduate at Harvard Mr. Roosevelt was chairman of his class committee and president of the CRIMSON. From 1910 to 1913 he was a member of the New York State Senate and from 1913 until 1920 he held the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...
...agreements were not equally easy to obtain. Matchmaker Kreuger had to dicker. To win the French state monopoly, he bought $50,000,000 French government bonds. He loaned Greece $5,000,000 for the monopoly. Ecuador received $2,000,000 and a yearly payment. A similar dicker pleased Esthonia. And such a deal was responsible for the $36,000,000 Hungarian bonds for which U. S. and foreign investors began, last week, to make indirect payment...