Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected was this move that the galleries, packed with Latin spectators, first gasped, then cheered. Hubbub and furious cross-comments ensued among the delegates. Then Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes rose, visibly bristling with wrath. A gentleman's agreement, arrived at in committee, had been broken! Mr. Hughes is a gentleman. Said he, in measured tones, tinged with vehemence...
...rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...
...Removal of 'In God We Trust' from coins and of the Cross from above the Flag...
Homely statistics for the year 1927, compiled by Miss Elizabeth G. Fox of the Red Cross Public Health Nursing Service, were announced at Elizabeth, N. J., where she addressed Visiting Nurses last week. Each family in the U. S. spends an average of $60 yearly on doctor's bills. That comes to a daily total income of $1,500,000 to the medical and allied professions. Every day of the year, 2% of the total population is incapacitated, 50% is suffering from some ailment or other. Hospitals worth $5,000,000,000 and maintained at a cost...
...rage. "Oh, Pennsylvania, what a shame!" he cried as he belabored operators and executives, including "the great Herbert Hoover," whom he blamed for not denouncing an inhuman situation;* President Coolidge, to whom he imputed "presidential yellowness;" and Secretary Mellon whose interests were accused of "hiring private assassins." The Red Cross was also taken to task for doing nothing to relieve the miners' suffering...