Word: nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dispassionately Senator Borah predicted Governor Smith's nomination; equally dispassionately, he made a more astounding prediction: "I'll venture that if Governor Smith is nominated for President he'll declare for the 18th Amendment a,nd its enforcement, and not only that, will make the people believe in it. ... From the time he leaves Manhattan Island and crosses over into the United States, he'll be for the 18th Amendment." Earlier in the day before attentive students at Syracuse University, Senator Borah mildly dismissed Republican problems with the remark: "I think he [President Coolidge] is entitled...
...Representatives to prosecute Judge Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that Judge Dearth had in a variety of ways, "fixed" < his juries to give the verdicts which he, as Judge, desired. The trial moved along, strewn with puns about "dearth" a,nd "justice"; with Lieut. Governor F. Harold Van Orman of Indiana presiding; with grinning newsboys as witnesses, making the eminent senators laugh; with President Benjamin Harrison's son and grandson present, the one in the Senate, the other as one of the prosecutors from the House-and with the gadfly...
...hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans of a new canal through Nicaragua where Adolfo...
Scientifically Audubon is out of date now. As an observer of contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats...
...second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking down Federal appropriations. Then the vice-presidency was shoved...