Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotton. "14,915,000 bales . . . 14,478,000 last year. . . . For the larger crop, producers received a lower price per pound...
...Last year 279,678 immigrant and 199,649 nonimmigrant (visiting) aliens were admitted to the U. S. Europe furnished 158,598 permanent immigrants, New World countries 116,177. Asia 3,758. Chief sources were Canada (64,440), Germany (46,751), Mexico (40,154), Great Britain...
...Last year 224,728 aliens were naturalized, principally Italians (44,843), Polish (31,801), Russians (18,291), Germans (16,700), Irish (13,162). Secretary Davis regretted that "a considerable part" of them sought and obtained citizenship solely as a means of bringing their wives and children to the U. S. outside the quota...
...Senate clerk stepped inside the House Chamber last week and announced in a loud voice: "A quorum of the Senate is assembled and the Senate is ready to proceed to business." The House membership was instantly convulsed with merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right...
...punned Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times, toastmaster at a send-off luncheon last week in Manhattan to Walter Evans Edge, embarking as Ambassador to France. But in New Jersey many a Republican looked with anything but joy upon Dwight Whitney Morrow's decision to leave his embassy in Mexico City and-after the London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already...