Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesFull-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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The big test of the state convention lay ahead . By what his friends called a firm hand and his opponents called autocracy , Dawes had made political enemies in no small number . He had to deal with jealousy , personal ambition ...
The big test of the state convention lay ahead . By what his friends called a firm hand and his opponents called autocracy , Dawes had made political enemies in no small number . He had to deal with jealousy , personal ambition ...
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a ready to go it alone if some one other than Roosevelt carried the day in the Republican convention . An unpublicized preview of the convention was run under the heavily beamed ceiling of the 40 - by - 100 living room of the Dawes home ...
a ready to go it alone if some one other than Roosevelt carried the day in the Republican convention . An unpublicized preview of the convention was run under the heavily beamed ceiling of the 40 - by - 100 living room of the Dawes home ...
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Hundreds and thousands of miles away , in every part of the country , people would be crowding around radio receivers , attracted by the novelty of listening to a party convention . No man from Nebraska had ever been able to command ...
Hundreds and thousands of miles away , in every part of the country , people would be crowding around radio receivers , attracted by the novelty of listening to a party convention . No man from Nebraska had ever been able to command ...
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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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