Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER, of Pennsylvania, U. S. Senator...
...Senator gets a salary. His clerks get a salary. But who gets more? Senators Reed and Pepper of Pennsylvania, and Copeland of New York asked for a larger allowance for clerk hire because they come from large states and have many letter-writing constituents. Senator Pepper declared that his salary was $7,500 a year, but that he had to spend $10,500 out of his own pocket to hire extra clerks. A resolution to assist the three unfortunate might have been promptly passed, had not Senator Willis of Ohio demanded that its benefits be extended to others with inflated...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...
...Freshman game was featured by the exceptional playing of Pepper in guarding the Nassau goal. The University game was slow and marked by frequent substitutions. O'Hearn and Lindley each scored two goals...
...head he chose none other than Senator William E. Borah himself. For its members he furnished Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, Senator Swanson of Virginia, Senator Pittman of Nevada. The three first are Republicans, the two last Democrats...