Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pledge to President-elect Herbert Hoover the untiring support and earnest prayers of Methodists throughout the land to the end that the will of the people directed against the age-old evil of drink shall prevail...
...very public conversation, however. Not only were the camera men there and the cinemen, but so were the "talkie" men. These protested that Mr. President had not spoken loudly enough to be "heard" by the sound-sight machinery that was to reproduce the little scene for distribution throughout the land. Moreover a cineman came scurrying along late. "I have been sick," he said and begged Mr. President to repose...
...state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
Observers recalled that in Paris, London and Berlin King Amanullah purchased lavishly on his Royal credit and then sent the bills to the Governments whose guest he was. Since Afghanistan is a land of promising markets for European goods, the bills were paid...
...when I land in the White House chair...