Word: stems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patient, tactful Stephen Austin curried favor with Mexican authorities who had just won their independence from Spain, wangled more & more land grants, opened the way for new settlers. By 1835 there were 20,000 Anglo-Americans, only 3,000 Mexicans in Texas. In Mexico City alarmed officials tried to stem the tide by issuing stern decrees against slavery and immigration. Stephen Austin and the vast majority of settlers were all for patching things up with the Government, but William Travis and a handful of other hotheads began to argue with guns. After a few skirmishes a provisional government...
...North Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor and solemnly read a letter "expressing the wishes and hopes of some 50,000,000 people...
...ground. Eight to ten bales of cotton are required for each mile of road. If all bituminous resurfacing were done with cotton, a market for some 400,000 bales would be provided annually. Latest development in cotton is an experiment in converting the entire plant-boll, pod, leaves and stem-into cellulose...
...Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four Cox horses led the field. The Brothers Cox stem from pre-Revolutionary New Hampshire stock, were raised in Manchester, where their father was in business. John Hancock's Cox earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime...
...something must be done to stem the tide of human stupidity" acting in a political group...