Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely...
He is a close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator...
"You know," continued "Buffalo," 'I never give interviews. But this isn't an interview. It is just a few moments' quiet talk about the Girl Scouts."
"Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the...
"I regard it as the duty of Wilson's friends to tell all they can by way of clearing the man's reputation as a human being. (As a statesman he needs no defense.) His mistreatment of old friends was pathological. And those few friends of his who...