Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finished a long debate and finally passed Senator Norbeck's bill for migratory bird sanctuaries, omitting the provision requiring hunters to buy Federal licenses for $1 and limiting annual appropriations...
...political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control, for the reason that Mr. Lorimer was personally interested in Flood Control. His William Lorimer Lumber Co. owns land in the area where the U. S. was to buy floodways under the terms of the pending Bill. Let Mr. Lorimer get out, roared Mr. Schafer...
...vain they were charged by his opponents with debasing, if not prostituting, their heroism to politics. True heroes, they stuck to their electioneering. Further, they revealed that on the last stages of their flight they were so reduced in funds that they skimped on food in order to buy gasoline, and hastened home in order to avoid begging for meals...
Like lions in a cage, 70 airplanes made to fly were wheeled last week into Convention Hall in Detroit. In a day, 30,000 persons came to the All-American Aircraft Show to see and marvel. Some stayed to buy, for this was a business show, with salesmen talking turkey, not an exhibition of good will...
...Oilman Sinclair took the Teapot Dome lease for "patriotic" as well as private reasons; how he invested in Liberty Bonds for like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall son-in-law, Rancher Mahlon T. Everhart, to testify how this ranch transaction was made...