Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent, had expected the veto and cheered it. After three days, the vociferation calmed. Its re-echo will probably not be heard in Washington until the 70th Congress meets in December...
...decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair warning, Author Kirtland, justly famed for his musk-and-sandalwood Samurai Trails, enters once more that Glamorous Gate, the East...
...want to, must decide whether this cure is to be administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost purely sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller...
...France; Dr. Leonard Wood is Governor General of the Philippines; Dr. Hubert Work, U. S. Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Royal Samuel Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York.* Dr. John T. Dorrance (see p. 18) entered business (Campbell Soup); Dr. Attilio H. Giannini is president of the East River National Bank, New York (see p. 28). Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine.* Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur quit medicine to take up the social chores that President Emeritus David Starr Jordan (also...
...becoming Emperor: "Look at Alexander, for instance. After he has conquered Asia, he declares himself to be the son of Jupiter, and the whole East believes him, save only his mother and Aristotle and a handful of Athenian pedants. But if I, nowadays, were to declare myself the son of the Father Eternal, every fishwife would laugh...