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...passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed in the history of Congress," it requires payment of land and damage costs by States or localities, approval of every project by the War Department's tough-minded Board of Engineers for Rivers & Harbors...
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After January 12, Saturday is to be a porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork...
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