Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Heflin owns any real property in the state of Alabama, he derived title straight from the Pope. At least this seems to be the holding of the Supreme Court in the old case of Mayor oj Mobile vs. Eslava (Alabama, 1839) reported in 9 Porter 577. The following excerpts are taken from the opinion in that case...
...State Banquet in the Cattete Palace (Brazil's White House), "the noble and elevated" friendship of Brazil and the U. S. was Mr. Hoover's theme. It was the last speech of his tour and the longest...
...Debated and passed a $111,889,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. The total appropriation was some $100,000 over Budget Bureau recommendations. President-Elect Hoover's oldtime Department of Commerce benefited most. The measure went to the Senate...
...does reach open debate, Representative Homer Hoch of Kansas (which is threatened with losing a seat) will make a sharp but probably futile point. He will submit that House seats should be allotted, not on a basis of mass population, but on a basis of the citizens in each State, the voting population. This idea will be hotly fought by California, which stands to gain perhaps six seats in a Reapportionment based on the 1930 census. California's population, like New York's, was swelled enormously between the census of 1910 and the restrictive immigration...
Connecticut's Fenn is a patient, high-minded 72-year-oldster. Homer Hoch of Kansas is an electric, driving "youngster" of 49. It is not likely that Mr. Fenn will catch the Homer nodding but neither is it likely that the Hoch logic will persuade the big-state delegations to vote down Mr. Fenn's long-laid plan...