Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other than a U. S. President...
...Senate tariff war came to a complete halt last week. Feeling fatigued and futile, the warriors voted a truce (adjournment) before beginning the long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate. And whenever the Senate does finish fighting, the whole war must be refought in House-Senate conferences. Legislative forecasters declared no tariff bill would reach the President until next March?14 months after it was started by the House Ways & Means Committee...
Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...
...Fitzhenry judicial reasoning: The Jones Law raised liquor violations from misdemeanors to felonies. The half-for-gotten misprision of felonies law (1790) makes any person who fails to report a felony within his personal knowledge himself guilty of a felony. Therefore, ruled Judge Fitzhenry...
...Bukharin heresy consisted in doubting that Dictator Josef Stalin can put through on time his 33-billion-dollar Pyatiletka ("Five Year Plan for Economic Development") (TIME, June 18, 1928, et seq.}. Last week Pravda blared: "The five year plan! . . . We will put it through in three years and a half...