Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover, 90 h.p. Commerce Secretary, to take the first practical steps toward this end. With the approval of President Coolidge, he last week called a conference of State Public Service Commission officials at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan. From New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire they came; they listened to Mr. Hoover explain how an annual saving of over $500,000,000 and 50,000,000 tons of coal in the eleven New England and Middle Atlantic states alone could be made on an investment...
John Philip Hill is a well-dressed Congressman from Maryland, socially inclined. There has been some very small talk about ejecting him from Congress on the grounds that he has deliberately violated the Volstead Act. Congressman Hill picked up this small talk and hurled it home with the following remark: "If the Drys throw me out of Congress, they will make me the first Wet President of the United States...
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...History. The Colorado was authorized by act of Congress in 1916, along with two others of her class, the Maryland, the West Virginia. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, on a "cost plus fee" basis, the total expense of construction being about...
...Strength. With her sister ships, the Maryland (in commission for some time) and the West Virginia (to be commissioned about December 1), the Colorado ranks as the most formidable of our fleet units. These three ships are our only first line vessels built since the Battle of Jutland, and embody all that was there learned of naval architecture...