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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your comment on Congress with reference to passage through the House of Representatives of the census-apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Man from Maine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

A thousand or so Republican delegates crowded into Richmond's Shrine temple for a state convention. Mr. Slemp was still smiling wisely when he arose, proposed and had his fellow Republicans nominate a Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era, Cont. | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

"We have allowed no grass to grow under our feet. We've already started conversations with the United States. I am not a prophet and I am not going to pose as one able to prophetize, but today we had the second conversation with General Dawes and Mr. Gibson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Grass Growing | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

¶ He went to a dinner where the Prince of Wales, introducing him, said: "The General describes himself as a stranger. He just told me at dinner he was so strange that when he took his seat at the table and asked his neighbor's name the latter replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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