Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The experiment came early in a session one day last week. Barely a dozen Senators were on the floor when the Cotton nomination was publicly confirmed without roll-call or debate. Four hours later Montana's Senator Wheeler rushed upon the floor, made loud complaint, had the Cotton confirmation revoked...
Not many hours later those same newsmen and photographers rode up the Bay. Once more in their respective newspaper offices, they were greeted by skeptic city editors with the usual dubious grunts. Conversation in one Manhattan city-room ran something like this:
To Roseland from El Paso, Tex., came Claire Patton. She had been married when she was very young and divorced before she was very much older. At Roseland a girl can make (with good fortune and tips) about $60 weekly. So Hostess Patton earned easily a living wage, devoted leisure...
Last week, en route to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow rode from Washington to San Antonio on the same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as...
Bondfield, Margaret ("Saint Maggie"), Minister of Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a...