Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted (190 to 152) a resolution to postpone the effective date of the national origins quota system of immigration until July i, 1930 (see...
...Adopted compromise conference reports on the first and second deficiency bills (see above...
Senator Robinson prevented action on the national origins plan for immigration (see p. 18) by objecting to Senate work on Sunday...
...from $24,000,000, which Georgia's Dry Senator Harris proposed for this extra appropriation, to $3,000,000 but contentment shone upon the face of Prohibitor F. Scott McBride, chief of the Anti-Saloon League, who, while hovering about the Capitol to see that some bill was passed, heard himself called "the Super-President of the United States...
...reporters at Valbuena Field, Mexico City, knew that a colossal story was coming their way-in fact, well nigh into their laps. They could see it clearly in the air, for there was the Travel-Air cabin monoplane City of Wichita, in which could only be Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his fiancee, Anne Spencer Morrow. It was apparent, from the gestures of the figure at the cabin window and from the naked axle on the right-hand side of the landing gear, that the Colonel had lost a wheel. It was a story with a hundred possible endings...