Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political organizations he made out of the road camps. In these he made the slight error this year of making the tithe too heavy and Arizona is without her "protector...
...Labor has never had a better friend' than just before election when every "bundle stiff" shakes the "rattlers" and hits for a road camp where he stays until election day. After that the roads had to wait another two years for a gubernatorial contest before receiving any attention...
...concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...
...reading. These and other difficulties could not be attacked until the mechanics of the system were corrected, but with the machine in good working order it will be the part of the next Reading Period, now just over the hill of the coming vacation, to start it along the road to its distant goal...
...annual production of the Pi Eta Club will take the form of a semi-public presentation with the first night restricted to club members, and the second open to relatives and friends of the club members. The club will make no attempt to put the show on the road, confining its presentation to the two performances in its own theatre...