Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later 20,000 people seated in the stands of the State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with its members, dictated pension legislation almost at will. It had already helped put fellow...
...World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had ever seen. Shrewdly putting the pressure of its 900,000 ballots on both parties, it was the nation's greatest single political force, vigilantly alert for "un-Americanism" as it packed Congress with its members. A fellow-member, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was already in the White House and another would take...
...naturally, then some shells, material or man power, somebody to teach the fundamentals and to--get the crew swinging together, and lastly, spirit or morale." He expressed satisfaction with the Charles as a place to row on, and was especially pleased with the material, saying he had never seen so many shells together in one place before...
...cold snap in the air may have been partially responsible, but whatever the cause, the Crimson offensive machinery seemed to click much more efficiently yesterday than it did on Saturday. Evidence of Monday's play-polishing session could be seen in the better timing of plays...