Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Walsh (Massachusetts) calling upon the Tariff Commission to submit to it a copy of this sugar report. Utah's Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, great and good friend of the domestic beet sugar industry, declared that "nobody except the President has a right to see" this report, which may be a major influence in the forthcoming sugar tariff battle...
Capone told Philadelphia officials a yarn about effecting a gang truce for Chicago while in Atlantic City, whereby the Beer Racket would be peacefully divided between what remained of his old mob and that of George ("Bugs") Moran. Chicago officials were skeptical of any such blessing, but, good sportsmen, they congratulated Philadelphia on putting Capone behind the bars for the first time in his notorious career...
State's Attorney John A. Swanson exclaimed: "Good news...
...away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days all New Yorkers were reduced to reading one jointly-issued tabloid for their news...
...legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...