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...history of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is open at an interesting account of the disastrous effect of the first debate on Mr. Lincoln. There is an early copy of Congressman Lincoln's speech on the Mexican War, delivered in 1848 and several reproductions of early pictures. Among the Lincoln documents are an appointment, letters to the Secretaries of State and of the Interior and an early document in his own hand...
...that "prosperity in full measure must await the satisfactory adjustment of accounts between debtor and creditor nations of the world and the restoration of international monetary standards." The speech finished, the Commons filed back to their own House. The Mace was carried to & fro. Bill No. 1 (a dummy document) was read as usual. Parliament was in session...
...could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken literally by any one. Of course nothing in the document was ever in-tended to mean other than opposite of what was stated. Nevertheless, if slightest seriousness is really attached to any aspect of this subject I will be glad to return to Porto Rico immediately and place...
Tightly packed into a null 61-page document, the Glass reforms last week lay on a table of a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. The document was headed: A bill to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of Federal Reserve Banks and of National Banking Associations, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations and for other purposes. Should it become law, it would go down in history as "The Banking...
...late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed Lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton won an acquittal by rehearsing for a spellbound jury the story of the publisher's life, loud-pedaling the part about his brilliant Civil War record, notably his service with Custer at Gettysburg...