Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference between the administration's figure and that of the House Flood-Control Committee was just $183,000,000. As the "greatest fight" began, and the "superflood" abated, citizens wondered what part of a 183-million-dollar stumbling-block should be scored against...
...Paul Block (5 papers...
...stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill, was to destroy the Eighteenth Amendment by authorizing beer and wine, but it is apparent that the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Linthicum], the new leader, has on his banner, 'Hamstring enforcement...
Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Among them were men hitherto more notable than he in steel, men such as Pres ident James A. Campbell of Youngstown, Chairman Leopold E. Block of Inland and President P. D. Block of Inland. They and their colleagues agreed upon the merger of the two corporations. A majority of their directors and stockholders must yet formally agree. If they do, as seems probable, their combined assets will be $385,000,000, their ingot capacity 4,942,000 tons yearly. Surpassing them in the U. S. will be only U. S. Steel (assets...
Senator Heflin's threat of deserting the Democratic party with a million of his stout henchmen, still hangs in abeyance. But if such a multitude are not ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against the election of Governor Smith. The women's branch of the Democratic party has stated an equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony...