Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Heflin tried to obtain the Forsyth County Court House at Winston-Salem, N. C., to hold an anti-Smith demonstration. But the County Commissioners refused to allow it. Senator Heflin, blatant bigot, would injure Winston-Salem's reputation and lower the prestige of North Carolina Democrats, they said...
...Bulawayo (South Eastern Africa) that the monkeys were sitting almost motionless on the lower branches of the trees. The air was as thick as chicken gumbo. Suddenly, the animals and the natives were disturbed by a noise like nothing they had ever heard before. An airplane shot down from the sky and came to an abrupt stop in the tangled grasses of a clearing near the village. A woman stepped out unsteadily and fainted. Two natives picked her up and carried her into Bulawayo, where they gave her some sour milk. She developed a fever, and said her name...
...Vogue, etc., purchased the controlling interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...
Governor Smith gave five sharp and sane reasons for his veto: 1) public authorities can finance bridges at lower cost than private; 2) bridges are public and the public should own them; 3) privately owned toll bridges are as old-fashioned as privately owned toll roads; 4) the particular New York franchises sought were practically perpetual; 5) if private corporations can make money on the construction of toll bridges, the government...
...Nevertheless, it seems a valuable one under the circumstances, and particularly suggestive is the fact which Mr. Gifford adduces in connection. Not only are the college honor men in general higher paid, but they have achieved promotions with increasing regularity as they have progressed. In the cases of the lower grade college men, on the other hand, promotions have come fastest at the very start, then with decreasing regularity...