Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only justifications for making that day one of extravagant pageantry seems to be that it affords the people an opportunity to fittingly celebrate the event which they have brought about--this argument, as old as the Republic, is advanced today. But reckon the railroad fare from any place further away than New York to Washington and the hotel rates in Washington and you can get a good idea of how great a part the people of the United States are going to take in the ceremony. The ceremony for them will consist principally of paying the expenses...
...politicians thought that universal training was shelved by the evasive action of the House of Representatives on February 25, they now find that they will have to reckon with the American Legion. That organization, which has a membership of considerably more than a million veterans of the war, and is growing in strength every day, has decided to make an intensive campaign for universal training in every Congressional district. The resolution was made the day after the House of Representatives tried to bury the issue out of sight by reference of it to a "friendly" committee, not named, which...