Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats, 1 is a Farmer- Laborite. Of the 15 Democrats, only 3 do not come from the South?they are the two Walshes (Montana and Massachusetts), and Senator Adams (Colorado). If the Republicans should carry these three States and Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina?ah, what a land- slide !?they would have a working majority, provided they did not lose any of the seats they now hold...
...Sudan. As Egypt pays one-fifth of the costs of the British occupation, she has much on her side of the argument. Under British rule, however, the Sudan has been developed to a pitch undreamed-of in recent Egyptian history, and, having made this desert a prosperous land, the British intend to stay. A compromise is expected in London...
...Bavarian Diet there was introduced a bill to prevent Jews from occupying Government posts, to forbid them to change their names, to bar them from holding land and to expel those Jews who had settled in the country since 1914 and confiscate their property...
...broadcasting on a national scale, we will have to fall back on the land wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a basis. These wires will receive the speeches from the microphone, where it is set up, and take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right...
...steamer Pemaquid made its way across the waters of Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...