Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of curtain raiser to the senatorial appearance of the 66-year-old wool yarn manufacturer, whose fervor for a high Republican tariff is only equalled by his Quakerism, Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee brought in a report in which Grundy lobbying was vigorously flayed. Mr. Grundy was accused of being a campaign "revenue raiser." He was called a "hereditary lobbyist" because his father before him had worked for the McKinley tariff bill. Mr. Grundy's retort about "backward commonwealths" was swept aside as "obviously absurd...
...right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers...
...best humor President Hoover watched the ridicule pile mountain high. Then he made a speech which, by custom, was not reported. Other speakers: New York's Mayor James John Walker, Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette...
...Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock's crew...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...