Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia. Blue-coated Marines stood at attention. The President and his party motored three miles to Mountain Lake and then they walked slowly, almost reverently, into a "Sanctuary for Humans and Birds" that Edward Bok had conceived, that Architect Milton B. Medary had built, that Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead had set in an aurora of tropical colors...
...tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
Bargain. In the secret conferences, trading possibilities were offered by other Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill. The Senate called for publicity on all tax refunds of $10,000 or more; it supplied the next President with $250,000 to make a law enforcement survey. In the basement bargaining to follow, the House conferees might possibly accept these amendments provided the Senate backed down on its $24,000,000 dry fund. In the event of a deadlock, in conference, with neither branch of Congress receding, the entire $84,000,000 Deficiency bill would fail of passage...
...shows the Republican leaders, Tammany Hall Congressmen, Philadelphia machine Congressmen, Mellon-Pittsburgh machine Congressmen, Thompson [Chicago] machine Congressmen and Representatives from other great cities do not believe in enforcing the prohibition law...
...suggestion and approval of the Cabinet. The Executive Committee, the Librarian, and the Chairman of the Social Service, Foreign Student. Harvard Mission, Chapel, and Speakers Committees will be appointed by the graduate secretary with the advice of the Cabinet, as will the chairmen of the Graduate, Dental, Medical, and Law School Committees