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If I took a whole train , Bryan would take a sleeper ; if I took a sleeper , Bryan would take a chair car ; if I took a chair car , he would ride a freight train . I can't outdo him , and I am not going to try .
If I took a whole train , Bryan would take a sleeper ; if I took a sleeper , Bryan would take a chair car ; if I took a chair car , he would ride a freight train . I can't outdo him , and I am not going to try .
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He evidently knew much of what took place regarding his candidacy between the President , Hanna , and myself , and was very much interested to know something more . ” The Republican campaign , under the slogan “ The full dinner pail ...
He evidently knew much of what took place regarding his candidacy between the President , Hanna , and myself , and was very much interested to know something more . ” The Republican campaign , under the slogan “ The full dinner pail ...
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His diary reads : “ When I arrived at Augusta and it was learned I was to mention the dread word ' Ku Klux , ' the state committee was in a state of extreme apprehension which it took no pains to conceal . Under its orders no Republican ...
His diary reads : “ When I arrived at Augusta and it was learned I was to mention the dread word ' Ku Klux , ' the state committee was in a state of extreme apprehension which it took no pains to conceal . Under its orders no Republican ...
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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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