Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devices: To persuade both political parties to stand for a national Prohibition referendum. To send two letters, costing 5c each, to the 27,000,000 citizens who will register to vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
...victims, accepting character to supplement collateral. If there are losses on the loans, the V. F. C. Corp. will shoulder 50%. Most of the V. F. C. Corp's directors are to be Vermonters and though the Corporation is designed to live only one year, its guarantees will stand for five years. Such was the financial aid devised by self-reliant New England businessmen to restore the vitality of private enterprise. At Montpelier, Vermont's legislators were, awed by the damage their capital had suffered from the raging Winooski River. Going into a special session, they listened...
...your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding...
...much for the women that I am for Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick. . . . I've known her since she was a girl and at such a time as this I think it's a pretty poor sort of man who wouldn't stand up for his friends...
...Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant...