Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathizers regretted that the Pact had backfired at Mr. Stimson's first major attempt to operate it, applauded his courage in proceeding on the assumption that a positive character has been given to a perfectly negative document by the verbal resolution of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald.
Friday is the prime day of the Hurley week. He was born on Friday in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He denies having Indian blood.* At 11 he was driving "Kicking Pete," a mule, in shaft 6 of the Atoka Coal & Mining Co. At 15 he was punching cows...
Prim and precise as a New England diary was the annual report of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He began: "The present secretary was appointed and qualified at 2:35 p.m. on March 5, 1929." Then followed a careful catalog of all the places he had been on...
¶Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every...
Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for...