Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the House's bill to continue the War Finance Corporation till next year; sent it to the President...
...Thirty million dollars was the Administration's figure recommended for the first year's installment of the $295,000,000 Flood-Control program drawn up by War Department engineers...
...Passed a bill continuing the War Finance Corporation another year; sent it to the Senate...
...Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances had permitted...
...justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write the English language?" So Ma and Pa go to night school. One day, when Ma is reciting the Gettysburg Address at home, she hears that her son had been killed in the World War while saving the life of Hugh Bradleigh, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Then follows the logical cementing of the romance of Daughter Beth Levine and Hugh Bradleigh, happily avoiding the Jewish-Irish hookup. As Ma Levine, Beryl Mercer gave a grand performance...