Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terminated, it looked as though legislation might soon ensue (see p. 9). President Coolidge sent for Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Davis (of War); for Major General Jadwin, Chief of Engineers; for Representative William E. Hull of Illinois, outspoken advocate of a 100% Federal program. After much conferring, the President let it be known that he might let up a bit on his insistence that the flood-region States pay 20% of the cost of their protection...
...Candidate Willis' two most famed utterances were: 1) At the Republican National Convention in 1920 when he said: "Say, boys and girls, let's nominate Harding"; 2) In the Senate, in 1923, when he declared that Harry Micajah Daugherty, defamed Attorney-General of the Harding regime, was "clean as a hound's tooth...
Indians. The Senate approved without even debating a resolution to let the Committee on Indian Affairs conduct an Inquiry to see if any Indians need any new laws. Senator King of the Committee on Indian Affairs reported that 4,937 persons are at present employed by the U. S. to disburse 25 millions among 225,000 Indians, or one official to every 45 Indians...
...Let us pass that up," snapped big Col. Stewart...
History. Texas has a past that gives Editor Molyneaux and his readers much to think about. The French let the Spaniards have Texas; and the Mexicans in revolt took it away from the Spaniards...