Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina borrowed, for industrial purposes, from the investors of Great Britain. Both principal and interest, about $75,000,000 to date, have been repudiated by these states...
...quick payments of their debts. As a Kansas Congressman (1915-19), Mr. Shouse served under Carter Glass on the House Banking & Currency Committee, and later was, again under Glass, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A McAdoo man in 1920 and 1924, he is viewed with approval in the South despite his work at Democratic headquarters last year for the Brown Derby...
...indicated a mayoral opening for some Manhattan Republican of real stature. The potent, arch-Democrat New York World, carefully styling itself "the independent press," promised to abandon Tammany unless the Republicans, too, played oldtime, small-apple politics. Nationally, the return of Tammany to type augured the return of the South to dominance in the Democracy...
...door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying...
...voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...