Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that no state would have fewer Congressmen than it has at present. Twenty-three states would have the same number. Twenty-five would have additional seats as follows: California, 5; Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 4; Illinois, Texas, 3; Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, 2; Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
...reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months ago-a national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or two before-a parade of the Washington and Maryland Klans...
...Texas Klans. Other banners showed a masked horseman, a little red schoolhouse, the legend "Non Silbla sed Anthar (Klansmen smirk when asked to translate this; it is not Latin), and the legend "We Are 100% American." Bands played America, The Star Spangled Banner, Adeste Fideles and other hymns, Maryland, My Maryland...
...disturbed arrangements for patronage in the Prohibition unit. Senators protested. A few changes were made in the districting. Indiana was grouped in a district with northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin instead of with Michigan (Senator James E. Watson protesting successfully), Virginia was grouped with West Virginia instead of with Maryland (C. Bascom Slemp protesting successfully...
...Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, also a Democrat, attacked the system of giving Federal aid to the states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying...