Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities. The appointment of Gustav Aaron Youngquist. Minnesota's Attorney-General, to be U. S. Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, had hardly reached St. Paul before Sire Volstead's daughter, Mrs. Laura Volstead Lomen, hurried to Mr. Youngquist's office to be the first to congratulate him, to express her father's pleasure...
Gustav Aaron Youngquist was born in Sweden* in 1885. Aged 2 he was brought to the U. S. by his parents. He studied in St. Paul, worked as a farmhand. By stenography he kept himself in St. Paul Law School until he was graduated in 1909. His first six months practice at Thief River Falls netted him only $110. He moved on and in 1914 grew a mustache to enter politics in Polk County. Married, four times a father, he served a fortnight as a captain in the Army Air Service during the War. He was appointed Minnesota...
...Voice from the White House had hardly died away, before the Senate battlefield rang with a new and deafening clamor. Again stacking their arms. Senate warriors fell to loud and disputatious shouting as to the responsibilities for tariff delays. Two weeks had been spent on the first of 15 separate rate schedules in the bill. All were agreed upon the impossibility of complying with the Olympian command that the measure be disposed of in the same length of time...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...