Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul, Minn., Andrew John Volstead exclaimed: "Nullification! . . . They would in effect repeal the 18th amendment in wet localities by divided responsibility...
...Conference was almost disrupted when Dry Governors attempted to overturn its do-nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...Question above was asked by Utah's Democratic Senator King. The Answer was given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering...
...word that comes hard to New York's Mayor James John Walker. One day last week he was quite incapable of uttering it when a Non-Partisan Committee of 682 New York citizens waited upon him at the City Hall, asked him to stand for reelection...
...reports put the Clarke failure at $4,000,000, gave depositors hope of getting 25 cents on the dollar. Later it seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar was the probable settlement figure. Clarke Bros. (James, Philip, Hudson Clarke and John F. Bouker) announced that they would do everything they could. at the same time refusing to answer many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds...