Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the Capitol, Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, onetime chairman, now most potent member of the Post Office & Post Roads Committee of the Senate, doubted if Congress would approve any postal rate increase now. Said he, who used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do...
Last week's example of the use of a congressional frank and its effect on the postal deficit: in June Senator William Edgar Borah made a speech in behalf of the debenture plan of farm relief, against the Hoover plan (now-adopted). It sounded politically good to the Democrats...
Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial.
Canadian National
U. S. land has dwindled until now there remains only about 600,000 sq. mi. (U. S. square mileage: 2,973,000). Of this . amount 209,000 sq. mi. is in national forests, carefully conserved. Oil and mineral reserves take up 62,000 sq. mi., national parks, 11,700 sq...