Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiery father, won all the important nominations-including the Youngest Senator's renomination-except for the Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second by some 20,000 votes. A Dry third ran Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin's present Governor...
...Perhaps," said a Midwestern Hooverizer, "Perhaps it is just as well President Coolidge chose to go trout fishing in Wisconsin last summer." President Coolidge's presence in the northwestern corner of the State has made a lot of converts to Republican regularity in Wisconsin; also in neighboring Minnesota...
...formerly it belonged to Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...
Last week, aboard the Leviathan, two people, meticulous and honest, made out their customs list. They were Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. They were returning to New York after the signing of the Kellogg pact in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3) and after a four-day visit to Ireland...
...Every citizen is obliged to pay five Afghan rupees and every State employee one month's salary, into an extraordinary fund (distinct from the budget) to be at the disposal of His Majesty for the purchase of necessary munitions...