Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...
...apparatus for the Hooker Impossibilities tricks consists of a small metal and glass frame, snugly holding a pack of cards, standing on a tabaret. Any card named by any member of the audience rose from the pack. A glass globe was put over the frame, a deck of cards was provided by a member of the audience, the frame was raised above the tabaret on a book supported by small glass pedestals, the frame was set swinging through the air suspended by two cards-none of these successive changes interfered; the named cards continued to rise. The up-and-down...
...been variously estimated at from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. Of his 511 stores, 364 are 5? & 10? 147 are 25? to $1. In 1028 they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco...
Then came forward Mr. Filene. Information on European wages, said he, would be valuable to all U. S. businessmen. U. S. Prosperity would increase if European wages rose. Therefore he would guarantee the Labor Office $25,000 to conduct its research. A good cause should not suffer from lack of funds...