Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...precedent was not set but by another Davis. On March 4, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis stepped into Senate out of President Pierce's Cabinet, he was Secretary...
...Such as: Railroad Signalmen, Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers & Helpers, Railway Carmen, Firemen & Oilers, Train Despatches, Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes. †The eight-hour work day was set by the Adamson Law (1916) under threat of a national rail strike...
...nationwide depression which occurred during the first winter (1893-94) of President Stephen Grover Cleveland's second term. Last week in Chicago, however, the shade of Grover Cleveland was invoked to help out an optimistic lottery scheme of Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson's "to set the wheels of business going within 90 days." The Thompson plan: stores in Chicago and vicinity are to give away numbered tickets-bearing the portrait of Mayor Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting to $1,000,000. Aware that the Post Office Department...
...drought loans for feed & seed after squashing a $60,000,000 proposal of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Aswell. His comment: "The crookedest, cheapest political action I've ever had thrust in my face. ... I thought I was dealing with honorable gentlemen." Meanwhile the G.O.P. moved to set up at Des Moines an "agricultural division" of its National Committee to try to win and hold the farm vote...
...Senate's demand for Government operation. Trade Commission. The prolonged investigation of the "Power Trust" veered back to propaganda activities when George Power Co. was questioned about its publicity in behalf of private Muscle Shoals operation. Meanwhile the experts continued to study bales of data on the financial set-up of power concerns and holding companies throughout the land...