Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesFull-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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I have always admired him , having come to know him , his attitudes , and his methods during the first year of the American budget and in France during the post - Armistice period of the war . The attacks on him during the preconvention ...
I have always admired him , having come to know him , his attitudes , and his methods during the first year of the American budget and in France during the post - Armistice period of the war . The attacks on him during the preconvention ...
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Herbert Hoover , onetime head of relief in Europe , knew better than most Americans the harrowing distress that ... Great Britain was among all nations most heavily indebted to the United States , and American public opinion felt that a ...
Herbert Hoover , onetime head of relief in Europe , knew better than most Americans the harrowing distress that ... Great Britain was among all nations most heavily indebted to the United States , and American public opinion felt that a ...
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I was very proud of the simple and unaffected way in which these fine and natural American women conducted themselves , and I could not but think how majestic was their naturalness as contrasted with some of their countrywomen who ...
I was very proud of the simple and unaffected way in which these fine and natural American women conducted themselves , and I could not but think how majestic was their naturalness as contrasted with some of their countrywomen who ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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