Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establish a U. S. Department of Education with a Secretary in the Cabinet.-Republican Leader Curtis of Kansas. To recognize Soviet Russia.-Republican Borah, chairman of Foreign Relations. To reduce the limit within which conspiracies must be prosecuted, from six years to three;* and to empower the President to give a court witness immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take...
State Senators persuaded Governor Johnston to remove the guard from their chamber. He did so without recognizing the Senators' authority to set themselves up as a court of impeachment. To establish their authority the Senators asked various judges to preside over them. The judges refused but the Senators voted to try Governor Johnston anyway...
...Potter's remarks are interesting and probably many valuable conclusions could be drawn from them. But his method of cultural geography would seem to be doomed to be ineffective. All it can establish or disestablish is reputation, and that is established already...
...Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence would have given the $500,000 to establish breweries and plant vineyards for production of light wine and beer. He believed that would conquer whiskey, which, he said, killed half the population in his day and ruined their families. It wasn't as bad as bootleg whiskey and killed slowly, if surely...
...Washington, William Howard Taft bestowed a medal. Earnestly he spoke praises of the recipient: "May your future work go far to establish the dream nearest your heart, the wide and useful promotion of the subject of commercial aviation." Thus was the Langley Medal, aviation decoration of the Smithsonian Institution, presented to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...