Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April, 1923, I sent to Wallace's Farmer, published by the Wallace Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, the sum of $11.25 for a perpetual subscription. Just when the plan was announced I do not recall, but I did not respond at once because I had been subscribing on the multiple-year at-reduced-rates basis and did not send the fee for "perpetual" until my prior subscription had run out. The Wallace Publishing Company has sent the paper regularly since, and will continue to do so at my pleasure as long as they publish the paper, and the company...
...Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
...sent troops into Shantung because the lives and property of Japanese nationals there were in danger. The emergency is over now and we have the solemn assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many...
...Labor: Negroes were needed more, subjugated more, lynched more, maligned more, after the rise of King Cotton in 1830 than in the two centuries prior. In 1916, Northern industrial centres sent out a call for Negro labor. Two million Negroes responded. After a lynching whole areas would be depopulated overnight. In lynching's golden age (1890-1900), mob-murders were less expensive...
...passed the U. S. Customs duty free. Their free passage resulted from their classification as "agricultural implements." Importance of this decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...