Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus even though Republicans carried such great states as Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and all New England (except Massachusetts) and the Pacific Coast, and all the Rocky Mountains (except Montana and Colorado) and all the doubtful Corn Belt and radical...
...Fundamentalist from the Kentucky Bible belt, one Dr. J. W. Gillon, quoted the Scriptures to prove that women should be ousted from the pulpits: Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak. ... (I CORINTHIANS 14:34) ... Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man. ... (I TIMOTHY...
...engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. . . . Mr. Morgan was interested in the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, known as the Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them...
Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon and Rperesentative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, co-authors of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times," were obliged to stand, in person, while impersonators chanted "The Corn Belt Is Getting On Its Ear." A verse: Don't forget it's getting late...
...they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows: Samuel Insull, organizer of electricity: "In Chicago last week I went to a hall in the black belt to address the National Negro Press Association. I waited two hours for the meeting to begin. Then I said: 'If St. Peter uses a white man's time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money...