Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John...
To Salem, Ore., went Senate GOP Chief Charles Linza McNary; House GOP Chief Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington...
It had been excellent advice that ailing Pat Harrison had phoned to the White House in mid-September-to lie low, avoid dramatic moves, cajole the South. For once more the South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every...
In 1928 bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it...
In 1892, exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has...