Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammer. The weight is so great that those who wear the device attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...
...Negro entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point last week, the first Negro cadet in eleven years. Inevitably, press spotlights focused upon him, Alonzo Souleigh Parham, 20, of Chicago, appointed by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest of Illinois (TIME, May...
With a 185-million-dollar surplus showing on the Treasury's books for fiscal 1928, talk of income tax reduction waxed in Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
Electoral Reform. "My Government proposes to institute an examination of experiences of the election so that the working of the law relating to parliamentary elections may be brought into conformity with new conditions...
...South may well serve the nation by avoiding the extremes...