Word: hamiltone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest Who's Who, searchers may read that the Congressman from the 26th district of New York State is Hamilton Fish, born 1849, son of President Grant's famed Secretary of State. It is a mistake. It is also a joke, for the mistake has persisted in Who's Who for two editions...
Last week the man who is Congressman-Hamilton Fish Jr., born 1888-talked in terms of generations: "When this country reaches a population of two hundred or two hundred and fifty million people . . . some overt act of Mexico will force us to go down there. If it does, I hope we will go to stay and bring two or three million Americans down there to bring law and order to that Godforsaken country...
...Hamilton became Secretary of State, U. S. population being...
...Hamilton's son, Hamilton, worked for his father as private secretary and was Speaker of the House of the New York Assembly, when the U. S. population was 70,000,000 (1895-96). He later went to Congress...
...voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic feature of a new city charter. In 1924, Cincinnatti followed Cleveland's lead. In 1926 Hamilton, Ohio, did likewise. It is now in use in Ireland for choosing the members of the national parliament at Dublin, and also of the parliament of North Ireland...