Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
...still light like the sun was about to go down. We all spread out in the cornstalks. I could not see Joe all the time...
Such sallies caused no flicker of a smile on Senator Smoot's worn face. Like a litany he repeated the statistics of the new bill: "... 431 changes . . . 177 increases ... 254 decreases ... 13% of all increases in agricultural schedules. . . . Revenue under present law: $516,581,344; under the House bill: $646,014,545; under the Senate bill...
...serious position in America. The eyes of the civilized world are on Oscar De Priest. I have received more publicity than any other member of Congress. I will continue to fight for Negroes' rights in Congress and use bathrooms, barber shops and restaurants [at the Capitol] whether my colleagues like...
...green is the corn grown by the Farmers Hoffman on their Blue Ribbon Farm near Somerville, N. J. Tall and grim are the factories that have grown up there in the last generation, where Johns-Manville Co. makes asbestos products and the factory village of Manville has clustered like industrial fungus...