Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican town committee of Sudbury, Mass., voted almost unani- mously (6 to 1) to "use every art and effort" to draft President Coolidge, advising the U. S. to double his salary and re-elect him for life...
Secretary Mellon of the Treasury issued his annual report last month for use by the Ways & Means Committee of the House in preparing the tax bill. Secretary Mellon reported a $635,000,000 surplus for 1927; predicted surpluses of $455,000,000 and $274,000,000 for 1928 and 1929 respectively. With the U. S. debt still 18.5 billions big, and large Federal outlays in prospect, Secretary Mellon advised tax reduction of only $225,000,000. Other Republicans had hoped for a cut of 300 millions. Democrats had talked of cutting at least 350 millions. The U. S. Chamber...
...Andrew's Society last week in Manhattan. Said he: "About the only things that make eyes flash and stir human emotions now are Prohibition, the K. K. K., religious intolerance and Fundamentalism. . . . The real question is not whether you are 'wet' or 'dry,' to use the inept phrases of the hour, but whether there should be a national, blanket law governing any such question of personal conduct when that law receives neither sanction nor regard among large communities and groups of the people...
...orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
Wrote he: "Not one penny of the fund has ever been handled by me and not one penny have I ever touched for my private use...