Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Into the East Room, curtained, flower-banked, walked President Hoover alone. Down into a metal casket set near the wall he gazed for silent sorrowful minutes into the face of his dead friend and Secretary of War, James William Good. After the President returned, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court...
Each Senator flayed the public character he disliked most. Senator Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only...
Tariff things so far done by the Senate: inclusion of the Export Debenture Plan; exclusion of the President's power to flex rates 50% up or down; increases in agricultural rates; decreases in industrial rates. Tariff things undone: rate changes on sugar, dyes, paper, textiles et al; revision of the...
Mayor Newbegin of Tacoma was glad he remembered that fact because Tacoma (pop. 110.000 ) badly needed light, badly needed power. Cushman Dam which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned...
Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other...