Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexandria, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass read Senator Borah's Detroit speech (see "Republicans"), and fulminated. He dug up Borah speeches in the Senate in 1919 which charged that the Hoover-headed Food Administration was "directed and controlled by" three of the "vast monopolies which control food in this country." Senator Borah had cited figures and said: "I do not want any man to operate a trust fund by my vote who thinks that those figures represent decency or honesty...
Northern readers of a new publication, Forward Atlanta, were shocked to read the following business item...
Florida. The carnage in Florida came as a surprise to those who read the early reports. With the hurricane, centering at West Palm Beach, the barometer dropped to 27.57, believed to be the lowest reading ever recorded in the U. S. During the first frenzied days of relief work the death total reached at least 1,500. Unnumbered thousands were injured, 15,000 were homeless, and property losses of $50,000,000 or even $75,000,000 seemed likely...
Said "Jix" to gaping Ayrshire yokels, while London listened: "All the stories you have heard or read about dissension in the Cabinet are absolutely without foundation. Mr. Churchill is, like myself, entirely in agreement with the policy the Prime Minister has laid down . . . , and on that policy the Conservative Party can unite [for the 1929 election...
Meanwhile Prime Minister Hertzog continued his labors in Pretoria, scouting the idea that a "republic" could have greater practical freedom than have all British "dominions." To prove his point he read the famed definition of "dominion status," which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain has declared "destined to become historic" (TIME...