Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instinctively dramatic, he carefully gauges every public act, can still make even his wife cry with his play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has...
"General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil...
"The charges made against me so preyed upon my mind that I trembled upon the very edge of eternity.† . . . I never stole an election. . . . How unfair and unjust my accusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and technicalities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy! . . .
So complex are the Budget's figures that President Hoover prepared for his own use a simplified compilation, grouping expenditures under functional heads, rather than by departments and bureaus. This "personal budget," as the President called it, showed how each dollar of Government money will be divided:
Ha, Ha, Ha! Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had...