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Word: states (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin and Minnesota are the Midwestern States which the Democrats have been claiming most persistently. Mr. Good was frank to say last week that "an educational campaign on the farm problem is essential." He arrives at decisions like this by forming Hoover-Curtis clubs throughout a State and from their reports compiling a cross section of the State's sentiment. He then prepares material, inspects the local machinery for distributing it and fires away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...glad to state that we are meeting with wonderful success. Members are coming in daily, glad for a chance to receive their long delayed political justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Jack Democrat | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...down. A man named Keenan in Parkersburg, West Va., had written him that a woman named Bauer in Parkersburg was passing around word that a woman named Sanford in Syracuse, N. Y., had written her that she had seen the Warrior "disgustingly intoxicated" at the Syracuse, N. Y., State Fair. It was just the sort of story that is heard at least weekly by most of the Warrior's friends and foes alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Warrior got an exoneration from a New York State Senator who had been with him constantly at the Syracuse fair. He got a denial of the letter from its alleged writer and an evasion from its alleged recipient. Then he issued a document entitled: "Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Clarence A. Barnes, a Republican candidate for Attorney-General of Massachusetts, annoyed the Happy Warrior by picking up some New York State talk about a gambling pool on major league baseball games which operated "in the shadow of the Capitol" at Albany. Nominee Smith had declared himself technically impotent to act in this matter (there undeniably was a gambling pool) when Col. Roosevelt the Younger stumped around making the same charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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