Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First-line cruisers built, building, about to be built: U. S. 255,000 tons; Britain...
...putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial commodity...
...Andrew Jackson was U. S. President. All good people were worried about the rise of Mormonism. Manhattan Island had streets as far uptown as Fourteenth. New York elected its first mayor by popular vote. Frances Wright, "that bold blasphemer and voluptuous preacher of licentiousness" stirred audiences with her free talk, caused the defeat of a Tammany candidate for the legislature. Washington Square had just been changed from Potter's Field to a public park. Imprisonment for debt was abolished that year...
...Grand Sachem of the Society of St. Tammany, celebrated his 100th birthday. It was a three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in 1852, Mr. Voorhis fought William Marcy Tweed and the "Old Tammany," received his first office, Commissioner of Excise, in 1873 under the reform administration of Mayor Havemeyer. He was long the city's Police Commissioner. Continuously in public service since, his jobs have always been appointive...
...Voorhis." To other guests went other presents: To the men, pencils, to the women, fans, all marked in gilt: "1829? JOHN R. VOORHIS?1929." There was a birthday cake, two poems, 100 roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner Whalen joshed him because the police department had no Voorhis fingerprints, added: "I thought that in 100 years, any man would stub his toe at least once...