Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover nominated: Charles Calvin Moore of Idaho as Land Office Commissioner; Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, succeeding Eugene Meyer Jr., resigned...
Similar tornadoes twisted over the face of the land elsewhere last week, all evidently offspring of a large cyclonic disturbance which started over northern Texas and swept northeast. In Arkansas, eight persons were blown to death...
...longer can the assurance of the old refrain, "All's quiet along the Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
...years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President can enjoy undisputed the honor accorded his wife by a loving nation...
Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...