Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I certainly don't marvel at the staggering nerve of Mr. J. T. Sanders, Sioux Falls Plumber. (TIME, March 25). We, all of us, are so at the mercy of his 11 Trovatore musicians that plumbers have become demigods shattering the peace of our bedrooms and laying waste our bankrolls. I know a God-fearing man who got drunk for a week after a little fairy of a plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe...
LIBERTY, famed product of potent tycoon Medill-Patterson-McCormick-dynasty, March 9, p. 4, editorially, re "DIVORCE AND COLLUSION," says...
Sirs: In a footnote of your issue of March 18, on page 13, you speak of J. Sterling Morton as "Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland." May I ask if you are not wrong in this placing of Mr. Morton? If my recollection serves me right, Mr. Morton was Secretary of Agriculture instead of the Interior under Mr. Cleveland. In fact, Mr. Morton was the first Secretary of Agriculture, as the department was created under the administration just preceding Cleveland, who was the first president to fill that important department. In addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture...
...mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part of the Hoover farm relief program...
...offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon found that more revenue must be forthcoming to keep up the splurge. In March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent...