Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have forgotten the great three-cornered battle front of 1924, the Cleveland convention where the old guard in revolt named Frank O. Lowden for Vice-President and, when he proudly turned them down, revolted again and named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven-day wonder, the convention in the old Madison Square Garden where McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator...
...against the G. O. P., Mr. Garrett exhibited a delicacy of manner, a restraint of language that caused his more bellicose followers to ask if he were "pulling his punches" (gentling). His attack was on broad principles. He never ridiculed the White House, never called the President names. Small wonder that the many potent Republicans who recommended his appointment to a $12,500 job found the President responsive...
...would be interesting to know just .how many similar awards have been made, and in whose favor. I cannot but wonder just what qualifications one must have in order to share in this Senatorial graft. Can TIME enlighten me-and some intimate friends with whom I have discussed this matter...
...Grundy and the tariff boosters had their shoulders to the wheel. Congress itself seemed ready to give it a spin?and then Mr. Smoot was converted in Miami. Small wonder if Mr. Grundy had food for thought. Small wonder if Mr. Hoover too had food for thought. Could he disgruntle Mr. Grundy?the Mr. Grundy who raised for the Republicans...
When these jestings of his are represented to the outside world as the reflections of a serious thinker, it is no wonder that the impression has been startling...