Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Draft or no draft, Republicans felt that the President's announcement would greatly aid the party in resolving a major situation which an Iowa newspaper described as follows: "The Republican East is in the saddle and the Republican West is in arms...
Illinois has been able to build some of the finest concrete highways in the nation without the aid of a gasoline tax. But now, what will she be able to do with the added wealth of the two-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 ? Will she have electric-lighted boulevards through the prairies? Will she have marble bridges? Unfortunately, she lost a little of her potential revenue when some 85% of her automobile owners drove to gasoline stations on the day before the tax began, and shouted: "Fill 'er up!" In Illinois...
...plans were vigorously suggested: 1) the McNary-Haugen bill which provided for a huge Government brokerage corporation to buy the farmers' crops and virtually fix the market prices, operating expenses being paid by an equalization fee (crop tax), collected from the farmers; 2) the Norbeck-Burtness bill which would aid the agrarian by lending him Government money...
...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
...Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...