Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could. Secretary of War James William Good last week might have charged out into a grassy field just below New Orleans, waved his Arms wildly, uttered loud noises from his throat. This he might have done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing...
...victory was really out of bounds, because the Treaty of Ghent had been executed two weeks before; 'but no more out of bounds, in Secretary Good's opinion, than the cows that now roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion...
...years had doled out its domain to its citizens to homestead, to the railroads to develop new territory, to prospectors to exploit. For the asking and a promise to live there homesteaders could, and still can, get 160 acres, stockmen 640 acres. In 1902 when most of the good farming land was gone the U. S. began reclaiming the desert by irrigation. Today some 600,000 persons cultivate 3,200,000 acres of land reclaimed at a cost...
Because he would not tell the New Jersey legislature how he made his fortune, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for contempt. Last week his great & good Democratic friend Vice-Chancellor John J. Fallen of New Jersey quashed his arrest as unconstitutional. Promptly Mayor Hague sailed for Europe in the imperial suite of the S. S. Berengaria...
...Love (Sovkino). Only the apparent conviction of Russian film directors that no picture is complete unless it points a political moral in support of the existing Russian government-a conviction dictated to them by forces outside their craft-spoils the effect of this good story. Emma Zessarskaya plays a peasant woman who has a love affair with an Austrian prisoner working in Russian fields. As long as the conflict remains a private one between her independent ideas and the standards of her neighbors, the picture is worthwhile, believable. Before it ends the Austrian, a practical, unimaginative fellow up to that...