Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter Laura testified that he was "a good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes. Volstead became legal adviser of the Northwest Prohibition District...
Bankers Reynolds and Traylor were both farmer lads, both rose through law to banking, both were personal protégés of elder bankers, both are Democrats...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...Greene, Me., a fire occurred on the farm of John Sawyer. Firemen failed to save three buildings, used up all their water. Then they filled their pump with barrels of Farmer Sawyer's vinegar, squirted it at a fourth building, saved...
...Oscar F. Willing lives in Portland, Ore., and was runner-up in the National Amateur golf championship at Pebble Beach (TIME, Sept. 16). Dr. Henrik Shipstead lives in Minnesota and in addition to being a duck-hunting dentist he is a U. S. Senator, a one-man Party (Farmer-Labor), a sick man (TIME, Sept. 16). The third. Dr. George T. Gregg of Pittsburgh, is the best U. S. golfer over the age of 55. This he proved last week by scoring 156 for two rounds at Apawamis (Rye, N. Y.), in the tournament of the U. S. Senior Golf...