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“ Roosevelt fears that Governor Odell , through the machine , will control the New York delegation against him . I told him I thought this would greatly strengthen him if it happened , just as Cleveland was strengthened by the ...
“ Roosevelt fears that Governor Odell , through the machine , will control the New York delegation against him . I told him I thought this would greatly strengthen him if it happened , just as Cleveland was strengthened by the ...
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“ Cortelyou told me of the condition of the President . I then saw the President's sisters , Mrs. Duncan and Miss Helen McKinley ; and Mary Barber , who was trying to comfort Mrs. McKinley . I did not see Mrs. McKinley .
“ Cortelyou told me of the condition of the President . I then saw the President's sisters , Mrs. Duncan and Miss Helen McKinley ; and Mary Barber , who was trying to comfort Mrs. McKinley . I did not see Mrs. McKinley .
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I told him that Chicago was already in as bad a fix as New York ; that we were certainly going on a clearing house basis , and that for his own record as well as the banks ' sake he should find us the money . I told him the New York ...
I told him that Chicago was already in as bad a fix as New York ; that we were certainly going on a clearing house basis , and that for his own record as well as the banks ' sake he should find us the money . I told him the New York ...
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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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