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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt arrived at the Capitol. A warm friendship developed between them. "Franklin" took "Louis" to the Navy Department with him in 1913 as private secretary, had him at his side during the 1920 campaign. Col. Howe is credited with digging up the "Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they...
...since it entered the Union in 1889, North Dakota repealed its Prohibitory laws by a close vote. Twice before, in 1912 and 1928. the decision had gone to the Drys...
...year (TIME. Nov. 9). As a result their Lordships were able to study last week a scheme for restoring the power of their house which has been whipped together by an all-Conservative "unofficial committee" chairmanned by James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Hon. Major General, twice Lord Privy Seal (1903-05 & 1924-29), Lord President of the Council (1922-24), Leader of the House of Lords (1925-29) and a thoroughgoing stuffed shirt...
...Harvard was primarily a Minister's College, every student had to read the Scriptures twice a day, and was obliged to attend Chapel a like number of times daily, once at six o'clock in the morning, and again in the evening. No student, moreover, was admitted until he was able to read, write, and speak Latin perfectly, and besides being required to have an excellent knowledge of Greek, was never allowed during his College course to use his mother tongue, except in certain public exercises of oratory...
...small consolation to them to know that Rockefeller was more honest in not watering his stock or rigging his companies than other capitalist promoters. Even a gift of seven hundred millions to worthy causes does not justify it, especially when one recalls that he and his associates pocketed about twice as much besides. And although one can respect the sincerity of Rockefeller's statement that "God gave me my money," one may be certain that the overwhelming power over others which that money gave him is incompatible with the best in his own religion...