Word: towners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted to extend the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act until June 30, 1929, when it will automatically be repealed. Senator King's three-hour filibuster was successful in forcing the repeal provision...
...Debated renewal of Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act; ceased without action, smothered by statistics...
There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
Last week, in Washington, able Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis perused thoroughly the annual Porto Rican report of Governor Horace Mann Towner, smiled. It was brief, comprehensive, encouraging...
Every Secretary of War is said to cherish a longing to visit his distant dominions, such as Porto Rico. But Governor Towner said nothing of the romance of tropic nights; clung tenaciously to statistical accuracy. When the Governor was a Congressman from Iowa he could fill his collar, and his cheeks were full. Now, after three years in Porto Rico, he is thin...