Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
Going to the Black Hills, probably not because he- wanted to, his petulance in creased. He was called on to be an In dian, a cowboy. The fishing, which he had rediscovered the summer before, was some compensation, but there were several incidents that caused him, frayed as he was, to speak sharply to Mrs. Coolidge. She was glad when he made up his mind ("I do not choose . . ." etc.) about a question on which she had stitched her opinion six months earlier, in the famed bedspread inscribed: "Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865" "Calvin Coolidge...
...chance Germany should go bankrupt or bolshevik, the bond salesmen would have made their commissions, the Great Powers would have their money, and only the individuals who bought bonds would be out of pocket. Though the roulette wheel of peoples and politics spins and spins-red or black the bank will...
...married people are divided into ten classes. The first is the 'category of honor,' consisting of couples with seven children or more. The lowest classification is the 'socially worthless' or childless couples. Rumors are heard that childless couples have been badgered in villages by 'black shirts' of the bullying type...
...Except in expensive editions I hardly ever see a Bible which is made outwardly attractive. Why is it necessary that almost always black should be regarded as suitable for a volume which contains good tidings...