Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filibustering 69th Congress, by passing a Deficiency Bill of appropriations to pay the back bills of assorted Government branches. Also, the House shoved along to the Senate with dutiful promptitude, appropriation bills to run the Government until July 1, 1929. By last week all but two of the ten Departments, and most of the independent bureaus, had been provided for. The two Departments yet to be provided for were Agriculture and the Navy and last fortnight the Agriculture moneys ($143,000,000) were voted by the House...
Hard by, the Great Smoky Mountains park, a 327,000-acre swath of Blue Ridge territory, six to ten miles wide, between Front Royal and Waynesboro in Virginia, is to be secured as the Shenandoah National park. Last week, the $4,000,000 fund necessary for this project was reported within $100,000 of completion...
Last week the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association announced that a positive cure for leprosy had been effected. Hydnocarpus oil is the new remedy. For ten concentrated years scientists have been working to extract an oil from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree that could safely be used in the fight against leprosy. The virtues of this oil have long been known, but its use was restricted because it blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could...
...Jack is really the son of Aunt Conover by an Irish father. So, after inordinate weeping, there is a jolly Irish ending with marriage in the offing and with the moral that, after all. "motherhood is God's greatest gift to humanity." Her Unborn Child may run another ten days or ten months, depending on how well Manhattan women like to leave the theatre with wet handkerchiefs. Elisha Cooke Jr., in the comedy role, was better than his lines...
...ten candidates whose names will appear on the ballot are: Democrats; A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; and Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana. Republicans; Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; and Frank B. Willis, of Ohio...