Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000...
The House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din...
New Jersey's best and biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as...
Mr. Morrow, it was announced, had declared his willingness to run for the office when the term ends next autumn. New Jersey Republicans smiled with satisfaction at this exchange of Ambassadors and Senators, felt they were making a fine bargain. They spoke appreciatively of David Baird Jr., the man appointed...
To the St. James District of the Arkansan Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path...