Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, if it can manage to reach a decision in the one day allotted to the subject, the House of Representatives votes on the Muscle Shoals question. There are three possible plans, which will be considered--all of them dealing with phases of government operation of the tremendous plant. Private operation plans, which would necessarily involve great losses to the United States, have all been abandoned...
...Senator Hiram R. Revels filled an unexpired term in 1870-71. Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching a Federal offence. Should Chicago's De Priest reach the House, doubtless he will take up this plea where North Carolina's White left off, although the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week announced that a 39-year record had been broken-no lynchings reported anywhere in the U. S. for four months...
Newspapers throughout the land are becoming fewer and fewer. Many shrewd publishers believe that ultimately there will be only one newspaper in each city of less than 1,000,000 population, but that it will be no less progressive for lack of direct competition. Rather, it will reach out to get the last possible reader in its city and in the smaller surrounding towns...
...Fairchild firm manufactures an average of one airplane a day, including luxurious passenger planes and sporting flying boats. Out of the 12 planes to reach Greenly Island (where the Bremen is), 10 were Fairchilds...
...dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions of Show Boat...