Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama was the last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board said: "The amount missing is negligible. I consider the story another bit of British propaganda against American shipping. The figure of $500,000 was set by British newspaper men who were absolutely in no position to state the amount supposed to have been stolen...
...Sympathized with the 6y-year-old Baron Buckmaster of Cheddington, a sponsor of the Liquor Control Bill, when he received a savage tongue-lashing from the 56-year-old Earl of Birkenhead, famed Secretary of State for India...
...first time in the five-year history of the Irish Free State, President William T. Cosgrave was able to announce, last week, that State expenditures have been, for a whole year, less than State income...
...There is cause for optimism!" cried Mr. Cosgrave, proudly revealing that while the national debt of the U. S. is $160 per citizen, that of France $456, and that of England $814, the shrewd citizens of the Irish Free State are nationally in debt but $35 each, or $104,000,000 in toto...