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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah of Idaho called on Mr. Hoover in Washington and invited him, in the name of Governor H. C. Baldridge and other Republican Idahosts, to go to their state next month and hunt wild animals. Senator Borah promised "cougar, elk, moose, mountain goats, deer, bears or eight delegates. It is really a wonderful country." Mr. Hoover declared he would gladly hunt in Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire had not such variety of wild animals to offer and did not invite Mr. Hoover to go hunting. But New Hampshire has eleven delegates at the national nominating convention and these Senator Moses promised to Mr. Hoover, following the Idaho invitation. In doing so, he advised the G.O.P. at large to choose its man, not for 1928 alone, but for re-election in 1932 as well, for party solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...garrison at Osawatomie and was later taken prisoner, tried found guilty, executed, made the subject of a song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. -One who by officious interference defeats another's plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech in Osawatomie | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...unofficial delegation of the American Federation of Labor, visiting Moscow last week, Leon Trotzky, onetime Soviet War Lord, shock-headed and wild of eye, declaimed upon the ideals of Bolshevism and the countervailing tendencies of U. S. bourgeois democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trotzkyisms | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Irish Open Golf | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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