Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repercussions continued. Unpurged Millard Tydings of Maryland tried to add to the Spend-Lend Bill a rider prohibiting any organization from contributing to a political campaign-fund any money not specifically assessed for that purpose. (This was aimed at the famed $470,000 loan by Lewis' United Mine Workers to the Democratic party...
Belair had been famed as a breeding farm for more than 150 years?since the day in 1747 when its first owner, Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, brought with him from England a stallion named Spark and a broodmare named Queen Mab, two of the earliest thoroughbreds ever imported to the U. S.? But in the 29 years that zealous William Woodward has been master of Belair, its name has become far more famed than it ever was under generations of Ogles...
...Stud is conducted with the same efficiency that developed the Hanover National Bank into the huge Central Hanover Bank & Trust. Belair is itself a fairly big business. It represents an investment of perhaps $1,000,000 and spreads over four plants. The horses are born in Kentucky, raised in Maryland, groomed for their racing careers on Long Island (or Newmarket), retired to stud in Kentucky...
...years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...
...prearrangement with the Republicans, Democrat Tydings of Maryland, whom Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year, got the floor. The galleries were packed. Majority Leader Barkley's jaw muscles twitched in angry impotence. Sweetly relishing his revenge, Senator Tydings cried: "Shall we, now that the time limit is expiring, recapture the right vested in the Congress by the Constitution to fix the value of the nation's money? Or shall we give up that power in advance, without an emergency, to the President of the United States, and deprive ourselves of the power, in case of future need...