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Word: towpath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Hearst). One of them said (in part): "In the Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hooverizings | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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