Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think what they have done to my ten commandments...
...providing $30,000,000 for the census of 1930, and for reapportioning the representation in the House. The Constitution calls fo a reapportionment every ten years. There has been none now in nearly 20 years with the result that, for example, California with a population of 4,433,000 (1927 estimate) has eleven Congressmen and Wisconsin with a population of 2,918,000 also has eleven Congressmen...
...simple reason that only alarmists have bothered to question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that...
...Hoover, saying that she believed his election would be the most practical way of securing Modification. What she thinks* of the President's becoming the rallying point of the Drys is not known but last week she resigned as Committeewoman, saying only that she had served ten years and that was enough. ¶ Balancing the discovery of Secretary of Commerce Lament's connection with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, it was disclosed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was an honorary member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ¶ An appropriation...
...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...