Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state is divided by the average district population, there will be a remainder which will be a fraction of the state not represented. Some of the 387 seats, however, will be left over to apply to these fractional remainders. The state with the largest fraction of unrepresented population will get the first of these extra districts, the state with the second largest unrepresented fraction will get the second extra district and so on. Extra seats will be exhausted before it is possible to give all the state fractions representation, but it is calculated that no unrepresented fraction which is finally...
...understanding of various treaty provisos. Toward the close of the week Senator Bingham of Connecticut announced that he had circulated a round robin to which he had secured 20 signatures of Senators pledging themselves to oppose the unqualified passage of the treaty. The Senator claimed that he could get 12 more votes for interpretation, or just enough to prevent ratification...
...informed John Blymyer that the only way in which he could break the charm that made him sickly, that made his pigs die, that made sweat break out on his face in the dead of night, was to steal from Rehmeyer his book, The Long Lost Friend, or else get a lock of his hair and bury it eight feet underground. John Blymyer got two young fellows, John Curry and Wilbert Hess; Rehmeyer had hexed them too, he said. The three of them went down to Rehmeyer's farmhouse one night in the autumn to get the book...
Said Emmanuel Blymyer, his father: "Dere was de old time and now's de new time. In de old time, nobody had no learnin'. Now in de new time, children get...
...only $1 left, but I was determined to get back to New Orleans and the comforts of my home as quickly as possible. So I borrowed $6 from a jailer and arrived back in New Orleans Saturday forenoon, just in time to read that Gov. Long had withdrawn his reprieve, and that there might be a hanging...