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Dawes believed either Sherman , Cummins , Theodore E. Burton of Ohio , or perhaps Fairbanks would make a better candidate . “ Wilson will be no easy man to beat , ” Dawes told the gathering . “ In the Middle West , a case will have to ...
Dawes believed either Sherman , Cummins , Theodore E. Burton of Ohio , or perhaps Fairbanks would make a better candidate . “ Wilson will be no easy man to beat , ” Dawes told the gathering . “ In the Middle West , a case will have to ...
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He said : ' I can find a hundred men who will make better lieutenant colonels of engineers , and I want you right here . ' Hoover is an extremely able man . He will succeed if anyone can in the difficult task that confronts him .
He said : ' I can find a hundred men who will make better lieutenant colonels of engineers , and I want you right here . ' Hoover is an extremely able man . He will succeed if anyone can in the difficult task that confronts him .
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“ I therefore look forward to an ultimate rally of American public sentiment behind it , faulty as it may seem to us in certain details , as embodying the hopes of a better future for ourselves and the world .
“ I therefore look forward to an ultimate rally of American public sentiment behind it , faulty as it may seem to us in certain details , as embodying the hopes of a better future for ourselves and the world .
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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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