Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Things done: 1) Abolition of the "Official spokesman;" 2) withdrawal of U. S. oil lands for conservation; 3) publicity for income tax refunds; 4) a federal farm law and board...
...group of men who last week journeyed to Washington, politely presented themselves at the White House office, asked for five minutes of President Hoover's time. Secretary George Akerson eyed them sharply, asked who they were, what they wanted. They explained: they represented a national association opposed to blue laws. Leading them was Spencer M. de Golier, thrice Mayor of Bradford, Pa., Vice President of N. A. O. B. L. They had read about how a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance had called last month upon President Hoover to urge him to support blue law legislation for Washington...
Things started: 1) study of law enforcement; 2) oil conservation by states; 3) a reorganized G. O. P., South; 4) naval limitation; 5) curtailment of military costs; 6) elimination of Postal deficits; 7) a conference on child welfare; 8) improvement of U. S. prisons; 9) tariff revision; 10) study of possible tax reduction...
...their next Governor, Virginians will choose in November between a professor of constitutional law at William & Mary and a professor of psychology at Washington & Lee. Anything but academic will be the campaign because each of these schoolmen will personify a side of a question as large as the political South: Can the Republican party hold or extend locally the gains it made nationally last year when Democrats deserted their ticket...
...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...