Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon less affable lips it would have been a tirade on Equality v. Privilege. It was not seriously a platform but an explosion under the platform. It sought to pledge the G. O. P. to a number of things which may, like many another "radical" plan, come about in time, but which at that writing were hopeless, wilful "heresies." Part of the Minority Platform...
Mellon: "Good morning, Mr. President. I am leaving for the convention and have come to say good...
...complex. Ambassador Collier has handled them with such distinguished ease that there has not been even a hint of a "Chile incident." Previously, he had been U. S. Minister to Spain (1905-09) and president of George Washington University (1918-21). He is a lawyer. Nine fat volumes have come from his pen; among them, Collier on Bankruptcy, The Trusts, The Law and the Higher...
...Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
...ferry pier in Manhattan a crowd of commuters waiting for the boat that would take them to Staten Island saw a line of small boats come round the curve of the harbor. They were racing, each boat a dark point capping a triangle of spray; the commuters looked on with interest. Suddenly one boat choked, caught fire; the men on board could be seen working wildly, throwing something on the burning engine. The other boats swept on, then in a feather of foam one swerved, capsized; a coast guard cutter raced out to pick up the men in the water...