Word: manne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office of "the national committee" that the investigator went. She went to the office of Col. Horace A. Mann, Southern campaigner appointed specially by Nominee Hoover, an office purposely far removed from the Republican National Committee (though financed...
...investigator and Col. Mann had flatly contradicted each other as to whether his office or she herself first suggested going to The Fellowship Forum. The World's cry: "Who pays the Klan?" was no more valid than Col. Mann's cry: "Who arranged this frame...
...Horace Mann Towner, governor of the island, hurriedly cabled the War Department: "Full relief and reconstruction will probably reach into millions." Refugees from the rural districts poured into San Juan. Food prices skyrocketed. Eight representative islanders. watching three days pass in aimless water-soaked turmoil, wrote to the governor. "For 72 hours," they stated, "more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief...
...Mercersburg in Pennsylvania, a new headmaster, Dr. Boyd Edwards, former headmaster of The Hill School, succeeding the late Dr. William Mann Irvine...
...against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...