Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...
...Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was a "bounty" and asked, "What...
...Master of Rancocas slapped his fellow-convict on the back and said...
Tennessee's Cordell Hull alone harked back to the old Democratic dogma of "tariff for revenue only." The proposed increases he said would cost the country 175 millions per year. His Democratic colleagues, pledged to protection at the Houston convention last year and by their presidential candidate, sat silent...
...overjoyed at my vindication," chortled Congressman Michaelson, before hurrying back to Washington to resume his duties as a Dry-voting member of the House...