Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mrs. Rogers: "I intend to continue my husband's work. I know I am equal to the detail of the office, for in fact I have been continuing the work ever since my husband died and have managed to keep two secretaries busy. I may not take a very active part in debate, but when the time comes I will be able to stand up and cast my vote when my name is called. I certainly will not be a 'pathetic figure' in Congress...
...Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, also a Democrat, attacked the system of giving Federal aid to the states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying...
...newspaper statistician, unnamed, reported to Secretary Sanders that exclusive of campaign utterances. President Coolidge had made more speeches during his term of office than any other President in an equal length of time. Besides he had received more callers? approximately...
...Nova Scotia is about two-thirds the size of the State of Maine and the density of its population (523,837) is about equal. On Cape Breton Island, part of the Province, is situated Canada's biggest steel works...
...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...