Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate is used to the silver situation, not to say bored by it. Yet last week a Senatorial Lone Ranger once more took the trail of the wild-riding, hell-for-leather Silver Bloc, grimly determined to stop the Treasury raids. Ordinarily, big, easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of Delaware is no Lone Ranger. Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty. Annually he 1) presents gallery newsmen and the Senate with all the sweet-tart spring strawberries they can eat, 2) gets...
That bill died of Senatorial indifference. Last month Ranger Townsend resurrected it, set off, sky-hooting down the trail. Fortnight ago a new posse joined him-the twelve regional big-shot bankers of the Federal Advisory Council, adjunct of the Federal Reserve System, who announced in a unanimous yell: ". . . Purchases of foreign silver should be discontinued forthwith...
...Claude Gernade Bowers (Jefferson and Hamilton), another writing diplomat, who represented the U. S. in Spain from 1933 to 1939. One of the first public functions Ambassador Bowers attended was a three-day fiesta in Granada in honor of Irving. For his own diversion, Ambassador Bowers later followed the trail of Irving's Spanish travels, dug into embassy archives and the files of the Ministry of State to compose a sedately romantic record of a perennially romantic American...
...Miles City, where cattle drives once ended after dangerous, difficult months on the 1,200-mile trail from Texas, 500 Montana Republicans waited by the tracks...
...rate, when Bryan finally reached the end of the trail, he discovered that the culture layer in which the relies were found was no less than 21,000 years old. This, however, according to Bryan, "is probably a little inaccurate, because of the long process needed in reaching the figure...