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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape being "lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order, viz.: the Navy's aircraft shall not fly over the duck-shooting sectors of Barnegat during the duck-shooting season. To do so scares the ducks, which...
...aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite his flair for mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia's onetime Governors who are yet alive. The affair, most brilliant of Virginia's social year, was given under the auspices of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In what...
...HOOVER v. SMITH...
...Thrifty v. Shifty. Most blistering in his attack on the stockmarket was Col. Leonard Porter Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. To the convening bankers he said...
REPUBLICANS Votes Add i t i o n s t o H o o v e r i s m i n c l u d e d : Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Rea¬ son: (see "Testimonial"). Benjamin F. Yoakum, Manhattan finan¬ cier, oldtime Democrat, student of the f a r m p r o b l e m . President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College, since Wilson days a Democrat. Reasons: Prohibition, farm re¬ l i e f , f o r e i g n r e l a t i o n s . 1,000 Methodist...