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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvement of the farm organizations of which he is the active head. He has arrived, now at a point where he is so convinced that the cards are stacked against the farmer that he has put himself on record as favoring the "equalization fee" in the dread McNary-Haugen bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to promote conservation irrigation and flood control on the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Passed Senator Caraway's bill compelling lobbyists* to register with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House under penalty of $100 to $1000 fine, or 1 to 12 months in jail or both; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come right through here. . . . There's the biggest bunch from St. Louis you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Resolutions drawn up by N. E. A. included: 1) a demand that Congress pass the Curtis-Reed bill creating a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet; 2) a condemnation of all political interference with school superintendents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: N. E. A. | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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