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...Pursuant of my unpromising experimental probing for humor in high places, I am going to ask you to contribute personally a dollar or so toward a fund to buy a typewriter for Caroline Decker, the tiny little labor agitator who is doing what no big A. F. of L. leader has ever dared undertake: to organize the migratory workers of the lovely orchards and vegetable ranches of California. You remember her? She is the so-called amazon who led the workers in their well-led strikes for a living wage in the valleys last year. She has to carry...
...Pursuant to a joint resolution of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, President Roosevelt telegraphed "cordial greetings." The President hoped for "friendly relations and mutual under-standing between the U. S. and her sister republics of Latin America." Most of the Latin American doctors there had had their expenses paid by their governments...
...Printers' Ink, Eagle Pencil Co. revealed a letter which it had hopefully solicited from President Grover Cleveland at the time of his inauguration in 1893. Wrote shrewd President Cleveland: "Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address. Of course I do not suspect you of desiring it for purposes of advertising...
Will you kindly settle a controversy pursuant to Speaker Garner's "Plea in Homespun"? (1) Is it customary for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to take the floor to deliver his opinion on an issue? (2) Has the seriousness of and widespread interest in the present movement to balance the budget given publicity to the Speaker's taking the floor which, at another time, might pass unnoticed...
...have found that . . . the admitted and uncontroverted facts alone warrant the impeachment of Governor Henry Hollis Horton and, pursuant to the orders of this House ... we are engaged in the preparation of articles of impeachment...