Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LaFollette's machine looks forward to retiring him in favor of someone who would do its leader's bidding. Taking patronage away from the LaFollette group, however, not only weakens it but puts the entire patronage of the state in Senator Lenroot's hands-a great aid to his reelection...
...Coolidge traveled to Boston accompanied by Mrs. Frank W. Stearns and guarded by Captain Adolphus Andrews,, presidential naval aid. She attended a luncheon given by Lemuel H. Murlin, President of Boston University, and later, in the new Old South Church*, was invested with the purple hood with red and white facings of a Doctor of Laws and "all the rights and privileges thereto appertaining...
...Ratified treaties with Canada, Panama, the Netherlands and France to aid in preventing the activities of liquor-smuggling vessels...
...paid for at ridiculously low rates. It constitutes by weight nearly 25% of the matter handled and furnishes only a little more than 5% of the revenue received. It is a part of public policy, however, to grant specially low rates as a subsidy to the press to aid in the dissemination of truth and journalism and all the other benefits of the printed word...
...situation was that the combined Centrists and Socialists were not strong enough to form a government without the aid of the German People's Party, led by Herr Stresemann. The latter supported the Monarchists ; but their combined strength made them clearly dependent upon the Centrists of Dr. Marx for a majority. The Chancellor, however, declined to support any Monarchist combination. The deadlock was complete...