Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized...
...Striker is an enlisted man acting as a servant...
...confused with Illinois' other Congressman Hull - Morton Denison Hull of Chicago, Harvard graduate, lawyer, president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; nor with Congress man Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn...
Salary. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had suggested that the salary of the chairman of the proposed Federal Farm Board be left to the President to fix, on the ground that he could thus obtain the services of a "high-powered" man who could be induced to take this job without financial sacrifice. The House bill authorized presidential leeway. So did the Senate bill until last week, when the Senate, a suspicious body, voted 46 to 32 to hold the board chairman's salary down to $12,000. Alarmed Senators claimed the President should not have such power, warned that...
After all, the Freshman Jubilee is a good deal like life. Weeks spent in discussion of the proper date so that no numeral man will have to break training on the night before the big game are accompanied by weeks of arrangement with butchers and bakers and electricians. Months, almost, of careful thought, a few moments of careless laughter in the dim light of quadrangle and common room and then the sun rises upon janitors picking up waste paper and commenting upon the abraded condition of the parquetry floor...