Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reminded by the Red Cross that 71,052 refugees from last year's flood were still being fed and sheltered by charity in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, President Coolidge evinced an ever-increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon the measure drafted and reported by Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with...
...persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...
Last week, Mr. Hays anticipated his cross-examiners with a statement which raised the "maximum" of Sinclair's contributions to $260,000 and the actual net of his gifts to $160,000. Mr. Hays tried hard to explain what looked like, yet may not have been, flat perjury. The explanation was this...
...solicited, Sinclair volunteered $185,000 more, to help make the G. O. P. books seem balanced. The money was delivered in one bundle of Government bonds and the total, $260,000, was exactly one-half of the $520,000 G. O. P. deficit. "It was just like a Red Cross drive," said Mr. Hays...
...CRIMSON poll," he continued, "would be to take votes at various other places such as the Harvard Square subway station from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, or a corner drug store, or a popular cafeteria. The net result of these different polls would represent a cross section of public opinion and would be a real service to democracy...