Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Courtship...
...Chicago, one Henry Redfeldt wooed for six years a Wisconsin maiden he had never seen, sent her $6,000. Last week he sued his landlady, said she had devised the courtship, invented the maiden, stolen the funds, written the answers to his letters...
...tour-listed in the order of their likelihood for him: Montana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado-have 63 electoral votes. Added to the nucleus of the Solid South and New York, upon which the Smith candidacy is predicated-the total would be 222 if his courtship has been 100% effective. Before the most optimistic of the Smith managers lay the problem of how to acquire 44 more electoral votes from the following possibilities...
Bessie Cudlip facilitated his courtship of Miss Fosdick by dying (on the same day as Miss Spragg), and leaving him her money. For she, a hearty wench from the "Pot and Pie," had picked up Mr. Winnery, Sr., in Brighton, honeymooned with him in Paris, that glorified Brighton, and lavished money since his death on church-sociables and Sunday School picnics...
Columns have been written about Hoover's strategy, his war record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be side-tracked temporarily on minor issues, on the Prohibition question, rebellious farm bloc, or a yelping Senator Norris, but can this important qualification for the highest position this country can offer a man be neglected for long...