Word: transacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible for the Governor to walk 100 ft. or so with braces and canes. When standing at crowded public functions, he still clings precautiously to a friend's arm. Constitutionally he is as sound as a nut and always has been. His affliction makes people come to him to transact business, saves him useless motion, enables him to get prodigious amounts of work done at a sitting. Governor Roosevelt is confident of ultimate total recovery...
...President's order one Chili Fish, an Oklahoma Seminole, was last week given a one-day commission as chief of all that Indian nation. During that day Chief Chili Fish will sign Government papers relating to Seminole lands in Oklahoma, transact other tribal business, collect $10 in wages, $5 in expenses. When Florida's Seminoles heard about the appointment, they telegraphed President Hoover they would refuse to recognize Chili Fish's jurisdiction in their councils...