Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rings once more among Presidential timber. Industrious politicians prepare with the approach of Winter to sluice their sturdy oaks through the waters of party politics down to the convention sawmill. The Stewart Edward Whites and James Oliver Curwoods of politics have already written the opening chapters of the great log drive...
...protesting because the Treasury refuses to buy silver (TiME, June 18). The market price has been hovering at 60 and some odd cents an ounce. Under Secretary Gilbert objects to extravagance. There is talk of an alliance between the farmer and silver groups in the next Congress with a log-rolling slogan: "$1.00 silver, $1.75 wheat...
...movement for college education on log-splitting principles...
...pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding...
...exciting race may have a tragic ending. Of the three balloons not located at the time this column went to press, the Navy A 6698, in charge of Lieutenants Louis J. Roth and T. B. Null sank in Lake Erie. A water-soaked log picked up in the waters of the lake bears a last scarcely legible entry, "All over...