Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, as a surprise stroke, the Smith voice addressed the farmers of the U. S. one last time. He repeated: "I want you to judge the future by the past." The radio studio was crowded with office girls. He was still smiling, but he looked tired...
Four nights before the election, Governor Smith remembered something. "All during this campaign," he said, "I have not had an opportunity to say something that I want to say now that I am home, and that is to extend congratulations, great good wishes and heartfelt gratitude to my running mate on the ticket, Joe Robinson of Arkansas. He is a man of extraordinary ability, great capacity and a man of wonderful experience. He has used every bit of the last six weeks working night and day in the interest of the success of the Democratic ticket...
...help Hoover carry that state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...Manhattan. At the station he is met by his secretary, begins immediately to dictate letter after letter and continues dictating across the Hudson. Luncheon is to him no gastronomic interlude ; it is incidental to concurrent conferences. His secretaries have been young college men, whom he keeps until they want to go elsewhere, but meanwhile he takes them upon his many travels. He keeps personal letters, family pictures, in a safe at his Montclair home, thereby facilitating the work of a future Boswell. His resignation (made a fortnight ago, effective Jan. 1) leaves him free to give more time...
Oscar F. Grab last week bestowed his $1,000,000 dressmaking business upon 14 employes. Modest: "I couldn't have made a success without their assistance." Tireless: "I want to try something else." Generous Grab's "something else" is the executive vice-presidency of the Lefcourt Normandie National Bank (Manhattan...