Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected to the Senate in 1922 for a full six-year term. Last year he was reelected. He voted for Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928), Flood Control (1928), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Reapportionment (1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He voted against the Soldier Bonus (1923). He votes Dry, serves no liquor in his own home, takes a drink out when offered. Legislative Hobbies: Tariff and tax protection for Pennsylvania industries; military affairs; immigration...
...ardent advocate of restrictive immigration, he led the fight for the 1924 law and again, this year, secured the adoption of National Origins over the objection of President Hoover...
...Coal & Mining Co. At 15 he was punching cows on "Lazy S" ranch and feeling aggrieved that Theodore Roosevelt had rejected him as a rough rider. At 19 he was a captain of the Indian Territorial Militia warring against Chief Crazy Snake. On a Friday he was graduated from law school, and on a Friday became a practicing attorney in Tulsa, making money and a reputation. In the War he joined the Army on Friday, was commissioned a Major and sent over seas as a staff officer (Judge Advocate Sixth Army...
...Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every working day, he would have to hear 28 cases a day. This is one of his sparetime diversions." And again: "One of these [officers] had 1,738 probation cases in his charge. If he visits them once a month, he will have to visit almost 60 a day, seven days...
...thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress...