Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first test of strength-the vote on the Borah resolution-the coalition was beaten, 39 to 38. But 38 represented the virtual rock bottom of the coalition's strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a thunderous speech, predicted the cement duty would add null to the cost of road building, denounced the glass schedules from "eyes to mirrors," vowed he would rather see no bill passed than that produced by the House...
Fashionable U. S. dinner-table conversations will flourish without alcoholic stimulation if the hopes of Mrs. George Holt Strawbridge, Philadelphia socialite, are realized. Last week she began to form a national committee of First Family Ladies who will keep their guests liquorless to propagate the idea that drinking "simply isn't done...
Anti-Smith Democrats, they were gathered in their first State convention to put an independent ticket into the field against the regular Democratic organization led by Governor Byrd, Senators Glass and Swanson...
...Hoover Secretary Newton proved to be a true and unfailing friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
Bishop Cannon's first Kable & Co. venture was an investment of $2,500 in August 1927. His judgment in general was proved sound although at one time he owed the firm $91,000. His best day was April 10, 1928, when he sold $75,078 worth of stock, purchased $58,353. In more than 30 transactions, he was a loser only six times...