Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call, the 71st Congress prepared to gather at the Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment...
...diligence, a certain futility marked the tariff labors of the House Ways & Means Committee. A quarter of a mile across the Capitol grounds waited the man who in the end would leave the largest impress of authority upon this legislation ?Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.*The House writes tariff bills; the Senate Finance Committee chairman rewrites them...
From the start the race was a neck and neck affair, with the Junior crew stroked by R. I. McKessoir '31 slightly in the lead as the three shells passed under the Harvard bridge, at the end of the first mile...
...wind. The Seniors took the lead shortly after passing under the Harvard Bridge and were followed closely by the second year crew with S. W. Swami '31 setting the beat. The juniors trailing slightly in the rough water, made their final bid for second place in the last quarter mile, crossing the finish line a half length behind the Sophomores...
...rodman in 1871, at a time when the Penn road had hardly outgrown its original (1846) charter which provided that it should extend from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Not only did he see the road pass through the greater part of the expansion which has made it a 12,000-mile system, but it was directly through his efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City to Manhattan. When other roads refused to cooperate, he went under instead of over the water and built the Hudson River tubes. Later he made...