Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditions and dignity of the Senate, would be a continuing scream, a clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...
...clown without cleverness, an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery...
...lest he marry an actress. As a matter of fact, he did not marry until he was 49, after his mother's death, and then he did not marry an actress. He has no children. He was graduated from Fordham College at 20. His first job was as section hand on a railroad. Later he became superintendent and managing director of the O. & M. R. R. He now owns the Texas & Midland. He got his title of Colonel as did Colonel House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. Now he is retired. He lives...
...bale crop. The boll weevil, while by no means eradicated, is not expected to be so severe a scourge to cotton this year as last. On the other hand, tropical storms sweeping up over the Cotton Belt from the Gulf over the Southern Atlantic section, accompanied by heavy rainfall, are worrying the cotton traders. Other troubles have appeared. "Army worms" are reported in Texas, and a hot drought in the western part of the belt...
...They are asked to follow into an attack upon them, massed behind an aggressive personality, a heterogeneous collection of those opposing the existing order of things, the greatest section of which, the Socialists, flies the red flag; and into what? Into confusion and conflict of ideas and ideals and into the reopening of war upon those fundamental principles of human liberty and the inalienable rights of men which are giving in this country safety and opportunity to the humblest, and to establish which the blood of our forefathers was shed. This is the predominant issue in this campaign...