Word: vention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. David Van Schaack, 60, Director of Bureau of Inspection & Accident Pre vention of Aetna Life Insurance Co., a founder (1912) and twice president of the National Safety Council, onetime editor of National Safety News; at Hartford, Conn.; after a heart attack...
...takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party. At the San Francisco con vention he vexed William G. McAdoo, helped nominate James M. Cox and forced the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ticket. People asked, "Who is this man Brennan who deals with mighty names?" They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there...