Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minority Leader Garrett then spoke briefly of the "perfect democracy" of the House and "the democracy of death...
...down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm deliberate way". . . . first in Italian and then in English...
...twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track. Just give us these roads we have mentioned, and a few others, and we will be better able to compete with our big rivals and all the cities we reach will get better service. Thus spoke the Baltimore & Ohio, seeking to consolidate lines that would increase its trackage from 5,200 to 14,141 miles, its investment from slightly under one billion to slightly more than two billion dollars, its net income from about $46,000,000 to about...
...Debated a minority report on the Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...
...said with entire confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...