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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world's supply of iron was approaching exhaustion. By 1902, the Minnesota deposits, almost unlimited, were yielding more than the mines, were outranking the Michigan and Wisconsin ranges. The Minnesota ore lay right at the earth's surface...
...Black. Since the Papist-Fascist issue is thus obvious and clear, it becomes more intriguing to try and extract from Claudia an answer to the still hotly debated question of whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering...
...Answer: half acumen, half luck...
Nominee Smith answered Editor White's remarks item by item and then announced that he would answer no more erroneous attacks upon his legislative record. Editor White stood corrected but added: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court . . . three distinguished, learned, respectable lawyers . . . [who would] declare the Eighteenth Amendment unconstitutional before a cat . . . could wink her eye. . . . Smith's leadership comes from the amalgamated Tammanies of our great cities. . . . Shall Smith Tammanize America, or shall we Americanize...
...blessing of the Rev. J. H. Davies, Vicar of Westley Waterless, near Newmarket, who last fortnight said: "I am the chaplain to the King's Horses and the King's Stablemen . . . before the 'Guineas' I asked God's blessing on the stables. ... In answer to my supplication or by Chance, the horse...