Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill providing for the construction of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and installation of oil-burning boilers in six battleships. ¶Debated at length the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. ¶By a vote of 221 to 157, supported a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on Saturday, June 7. (The resolution had not yet come up in the Senate...
...die for one's country
...Secretary General of the Government Pawnshop System decided that unpublished manuscripts could be "hocked" but not cows. A farmer at Boulogne was thereby sadly disappointed. Said the Secretary General: "Cows are not acceptable because they come under the title of perishable goods. A cow is liable to die in the sad surroundings of a pawnshop, thus making it impossible for the Government to get its money if the pawner does not repay the loan or redeem the pledge if requested. I think there would be a legal tangle if a cow became a mother during her sojourn in a pawnshop...
...Macartney was elected, 464-446. He at once appointed die-hards to all the important committee chairmanships. He made Mr. Bryan Vice Moderator. So implacable was the Fundamentalist machine that J. M. T. Finney, eminent surgeon of Johns Hopkins, lost his temper. Clenching his fists, he turned to the Philadelphia delegation saying: "This is Philadelphia ward politics of the worst kind...
...refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends upon Dr. Stone. If the Macartney-Bryan forces can persuade Dr. Stone that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost to tolerate "liberals," Dr. Stone, a Fundamentalist, will vote with the die-hard Fundamentalists. But if their actions persuade him that brotherly love is not one of their fundamentals, he will vote against them. So, the Presbyterian Church waited for the psychological reactions of Dr. Stone...