Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus in Committee of the whole (with Representative Graham of Illinois in the Chair) the great battle of oratory went on, not without poetic flourishes in the routine conflict of facts and figures. A Kansan brought out as an argument for the Mellon plan...
...Baldwin's remarks were intended as a compliment to Secretary Mellon, and, incidentally, to himself. Said a prominent Kansan : " To the legal profession as a whole, and to a very long line of legal statesmen, some of whom are still living, the Prime Minister's words are, to say the least, a grave and unnecessary injustice...
Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
...successful that Tex Rickard is planning to promote other sports of the great and open West. Having taught New Yorkers how to throw more than one kind of bull, he intends to demonstrate to them the other pastimes that have made the West what it is. A genial Kansan hearing of this, sent in to suggest a good old-fashioned tar and feathering. This, though admittedly excellent fun, was vetoed as being unsportsmanlike. Then a harvesting bee was proposed, but when Tex found out that harvesters were immense machines, he decided that the scheme was impracticable and would have...
...noble words of this youthful martyr ought to recall visions of Madame Roland and Sidney Carton, but somehow even the dry press dispatches summon a wry smile to our lips when they prate of our newest Kansan soviet...