Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Idaho's Senator Borah attempted to instruct the Finance Committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules, Leader Watson interposed "violent" objections.
Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse to war.
Senator Cornell turned one day to Senator White and said: "I am not sure but that it would be a good thing for me to give the half a million to old Harvard College in Massachusetts to educate the descendants of the men who hanged my [Quaker] forefathers."
Learned, eager Senator White gave $300,000 and undertook to be the first president. He and Ezra Cornell agreed that the starting point of a college in rural New York should be agriculture and that the curriculum should branch out later so that "any person can find instruction in any...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products...