Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President: There is one law I should like to see passed. The President ought to be allowed to hang two men every year without giving any reason or explanation...
...between a lobby in favor of ship building companies and one carried on indirectly by some foreign power against the upbuilding of our merchant marine, I see no moral difference and condemn each...
News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns...
...Sept. 12, 1814, British frigates besieged Fort McHenry, defender of Baltimore. Enraptured U. S. Citizen Francis Scott Key, a prisoner aboard a British ship, scribbled hastily: "Oh! say, can you see. . . ." Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three...
...Simultaneous with England's centenary of toleration towards Catholics (see p. 52) all Baltimore's fraternal organizations except the Ku Klux Klan, warned by bicentenary good-feeling, formed a permanent non-sectarian body which they promised to make worldwide...