Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesHolt, 1953 - 344 pages Full-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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Page 21
... Bryan which ripened into life - long friendship and political opposition . Dawes had arrived in Lincoln on April 26. Bryan came six months later , on October 22. Dawes , twenty - two , with smooth- shaven cheeks and looking even younger ...
... Bryan which ripened into life - long friendship and political opposition . Dawes had arrived in Lincoln on April 26. Bryan came six months later , on October 22. Dawes , twenty - two , with smooth- shaven cheeks and looking even younger ...
Page 31
... Bryan was not pres- ent at this meeting ; he was busy with his Congressional duties , but stories had drifted back to Lincoln , and Bryan was the chief topic of conversation . One of Bryan's colleagues in the House of Representatives ...
... Bryan was not pres- ent at this meeting ; he was busy with his Congressional duties , but stories had drifted back to Lincoln , and Bryan was the chief topic of conversation . One of Bryan's colleagues in the House of Representatives ...
Page 52
... Bryan's kind of convention . The old party warhorses , who were mostly gold men , had lost delegate contests to men whom Henry Watterson called devils of fiatism , and these newcomers would sit in the convention . But Dawes still had ...
... Bryan's kind of convention . The old party warhorses , who were mostly gold men , had lost delegate contests to men whom Henry Watterson called devils of fiatism , and these newcomers would sit in the convention . But Dawes still had ...
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