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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senators of the U. S. last week received the following invitation: "My dear Senator: Having recently received a famous fiddle, you are most cordially invited to attend my first public recital, to be given from the top of the Washington Monument, this city, on the evening of St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1928, at 8 o'clock. I desire to show the world that having out-Neroed Nero in persecuting and denouncing that hated sect of Roman Catholics, I can also equal if not surpass him as a fiddler. Very truly yours, J. Thomas Heflin...
However, a party of explorers from the American Museum of Natural History, who were back in Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
With one short lapse of two years-- from 1913 to 1915--Curtis has stayed in the Senate ever since he entered it; gradually bettering his committee posts and advancing toward seniority. He is now firmly established near the top of several committees which control the expenditure of public money. He is chairman of the committee on the Senate's rules. Three years ago his party honored him by electing him to succeed the vastly different Henry Cabot Lodge as Republican leader in the Senate. Yet in all this time there has been no important law enacted which bears his name...
...office. He was a Kansas Senator and Curtis was elected to succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee on the University of the United States...
Last week, the 13-year-old game had so far palled, and so far deteriorated from the exalted pastime it was meant to be, that the men who still make a living from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...