Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before President & Mrs. Hoover had been in the White House a fortnight, they gave an afternoon reception to 200 members of the Diplomatic Corps which set a fresh tone for these formal functions. Heretofore guests had filed stiffly past the President and First Lady. The Hoovers, however, moved about the room, mingled informally with their guests, passed from group to group...
...left vacant by Vice President Curtis. Norris Amendment. Without a roll call, the Senate adopted an amendment by Nebraska's Senator Norris designed to meet President Hoover's criticism that the debenture plan would cause overproduction and increase instead of decrease crop surpluses. The Norris amendment would set up the crop production of the last five years as an average. When production swelled too much, debenture payments would shrink. Many a Senator was quick to point out that the exportable crop surplus would have to double before debenture payments started down. The adoption of this Norris amendment postponed...
...Cove sits remotely on a plateau in Nolichuckey Valley, Scott County, Va. Around it and its 100-odd residents, roll and billow the Cumberland Mountains. Locomotive whistles echo from five miles away. Until last week, the seven-room schoolhouse of Rye Cove, set in an open field near the valley head, drew 200 pupils from ten mountainous miles around. Life there was simple, sheltered, unharried by the outer world...
...hobble the strikers' leisure, Gastonia adopted an anti-parading ordinance. Last week some 90 strikers maneuvered about the town in mass formation, dodged the police, jeered. They were set upon by a dozen officers with clubs and bayonets. Two strikers, aged 15 and 16 were arrested, lodged in jail. Mrs. Callie Jones saw her young son in the melee, rushed to pull him forth, was arrested for profanity...
...TIME, April 29), last week roared at a union meeting of Welsh miners : "I have fought as no one else has fought to protect the Communists! I have been reviled for it. I have fed them and clothed them−and I say now they are the most dishonorable set of men I have ever had dealings with...