Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service. To these men he explains that they are patriots because each of them makes a "personal sacrifice" to accept appointment. The "sacrifice" meant by the President in most cases is a heavy loss of income, plus the presumptive inconvenience if not discomfort of leaving home to visit or live in Washington...
...second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament, listen to debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...
...each month, to live on bread and water...
Moton. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute for Negroes, made a speech about race relations. His points: Negroes are not inferior to whites, but more backward. They want civic equality, not intermarriage. "The Negro and the white can live together side by side in amity, if both are educated...
...President Hoover last week found three men to serve on his Federal Farm Board: James Clifton Stone of Lexington, Ky. (tobacco), Carl Williams of Oklahoma City (cotton), C. B. Denman of Farmington. Mo. (live stock). He hoped he would get three others, to whom he had publicly offered appointments: Alexander Legge of Chicago (business), W. S. Moscrip of St. Elmo, Minn, (dairy), Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles (fruit). The President was having difficulty finding No. 1 men for his board. An able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required...