Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be decidedly in the background until the autumn brings the World Series and football. Amsterdam will be the center of interest as the focus of the Olympic games, but wanderers in Europe have been running across extra events going on almost anywhere for the past six months...
...Second Deficiency Bill-providing for Government expenses authorized since last autumn...
...political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back to the Republican party, and not be permitted to extend into other states." The kind of extension Mr. Howard possibly had in mind was the Democrats' shrewd move last autumn in appointing Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro pugilist, to align votes in Chicago's black belt the way Tammany has succeeded in aligning dark Harlem in New York. Mr. Howard had a program, he said. His program was to nominate for Vice President that tall 39-year-oldster Repre sentative Hamilton...
...what the House said, and what Mr. Mellon said next, and what the Senate then said, and what the Senate and House disagreed on, interested citizens less than what the Senate and House finally agreed on last week. Mr. Mellon's first "limit of safety," announced last autumn, was reduction of $225,000,000. The House promptly voted a reduction of $289,000,000. The Senate waited to see the April income tax returns. When these were known, Mr. Mellon reduced his limit to $201,000,000. The Senate then voted a reduction of some...
...Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...