Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest that you get out a yearly supplement. This would cover the happenings of the twelve months pruned so as to cover highlights and consequences and significance. Should you decide to go in for this, list me as one of the first subscribers...
...came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate defaulted on the tariff bill by voting to end the special session with this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must be paid anyway. Of this amount $151,- 500,000 was voted to start the Federal Farm Board; $19,000,000 for the 1930 Census...
...bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise the expenditure of some 40 billions of public funds...
...Carroll who conducted Queen Marie of Rumania on her U. S. tour. Describing that trip, he brought a blush to the Senator's cheek when he remarked: "Senator Borah, you'll be interested in this as showing what a marvelous woman this girl was." At his first meeting with the Queen...