Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, Prohibition came to the fore when the Treasury and Post Office Departments' appropriation bill was disbursed. Representative James A. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, Democrat, spoke to a packed house on a section in the Treasury appropriation providing $250,000 for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. He described a banquet given by two prohibition agents (as described in an official report...
...religious section of your issue of Dec. 7, p. 20, announcement is made of the sale of the Temple Emanu-El, famous synagog of New York, for $7,500,000 to a "Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements...
...whole. The general debate was continued for five days and concluded, Representative Green of Iowa (Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee) and Representative Garner (ranking Democrat) dividing the time equally between them and parceling out so many minutes each to their followers. Then the reading of the bill, section by section, was begun, with each Congressman entitled to a five-minute speech if he so desired...
...President's secretary, physician, aides and secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
...giant food-products consolidation originated as a merger between the Rieck-McJunkin Co. of Pittsburgh and the Hydrol Co. of Chicago-each the largest ice cream distributor in its section. At the present time the consolidation has acquired 17 subsidiary companies. Of these, Sheffield Farms is the most important. One of the largest U. S. distributors of milk and other dairy products, it operates, mostly in New York City 1,959 retail and 32 wholesale routes involving the handling of 900,000 quarts of milk daily. Other holdings of Sheffield Farms include five large farms for the production of certified...