Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase in the Federal fund authorized to be loaned at low interest to U. S. shipbuilders, which was approved by President Coolidge, looked to farmer-sympathizers who did not know how much money the U. S. has put at the farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed...
...Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was an allegation that scads of money had been spent for the Brown Derby in North Carolina. The Senate's campaign funds investigating committee went to Raleigh, N. C., and asked people-in-a-position-to-know. The total of Smith money exposed...
...levied upon each unit of the commodity in question, to augment the loan fund. That was not all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 further proposed that separate special councils be formed to advise the Federal board on the status of each & every commodity, so that the board would know when to levy the "equalization fees." That was not all right with President Coolidge, either. President Coolidge opposed the "equalization fee" for several reasons, some basic, some specific. Specifically he objected because S. 3555 provided that the fee might be levied upon the farmer's product any where between...
...know . . . there is a common feeling that there are certain 'honest grafts' which may be indulged in with impunity, and certain people are said to have practiced it and escaped. With that ... we are not concerned...
...read Lavisse and Rambaud's "Historie Generale" at the rate of 20 pages an hour. Doesn't know any German to speak of but insists that his French is adequate...