Word: cornettist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher himself. Barely eight years out of Dallas (Ore.) College, this husky, clear-eyed six-footer ran for Governor of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket. Though he was four years too young to take the office if he got it. he traveled up & down the State behind a cornettist, making seven speeches a day. The War sent "Dan'' Poling off with the Y. M. C. A. to investigate rumors that U. S. soldiers were misbehaving in France. In 1918 he triumphantly returned to announce that the rumors were false...