Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Walter Rockefeller Comfort, 70, for 25 years president of the famed Reid Ice Cream Co. of Manhattan, able Methodist layman; of pneumonia & paralysis; in Manhattan...
Republicans said that she thus expressed what would be the most general result of her husband's speech. They took comfort from an editorial in LaFollette's Magazine by Youngest Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, to whom Senator Norris is a political foster-father. Senator LaFollette flayed Nominee Hoover and said : "Governor Smith has made public declarations and definite commitments which are in substantial accord with the progressive view on water power, farm relief, the in junction in labor disputes, corruption in the public service and abuse of the presi dential power in Nicaragua." But he did not actually...
...Outlook story of Frank Silva's confession will have little or no influence upon those who have already made up their minds. To those who believe Vanzetti a martyr. It will give the comfort of corroboration to those who believe him guilty. It will be brushed aside as coming from a person wholly unworthy of credence, untested by hostile cross-examination and unsupported by anything that could be properly termed independent evidence. To one who examines the Bridgewater case for the first time, it raises the regret that it was not discovered in time for use at the trial...
...convinced that he will give the nation a sound and successful administration of the Government and that he is supremely well qualified to deal with those great economic problems that influence so directly and to such a very large extent the prosperity of the country and the comfort, welfare and happiness of the people...
...Alcohol, by its rapid absorption without the necessity of previous digestion, by its action to increase the amount of blood circulating in the capillaries of the skin, gives a feeling of distinct warmth and comfort to the aged...