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Word: ans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I and others are advocating a national Indian holiday, to occur each year, preferably in the month of October at the time of the Harvest moon or during our glorious Indian summer. I notice whenever you mention the Indians that you are uniformly fair and impartial and I trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

You were first to print my poem, The Long Night Ride of William Dawes, and now I am sending an original Indian poem. I am one-eighth Ottawa and the only Indian poet that I know of at the present time. By the Ottawas I am called "Little Crane." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Muscle Shoals. "Such parts of these plants as would be useful and revenues from the remainders should be dedicated for all time to the farmers of the U. S . I do not favor the operation by the government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable byproduct. ... [I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Prohibition. "Enforcement is far from satisfactory. . . . There should be an immediate concentration of responsibility by transfer to the Department of Justice of the functions now lodged in the Prohibition unit in the Treasury. . . . Control of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the Treasury. Provision should be made for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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