Word: washington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...10?Pan-American Conciliation and Arbitration Conference at Washington. Dec. 22?Polling day for Germany's Referendum against the Young Plan and the "War guilt...
...International Civil Aeronautics Conference at Washington...
...things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor of Cleveland with Senatorial aspirations, found...
...years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed, and, from that day to this there has been a constant fight. Not the churches...
Before going to Washington, Professor Ebersole served from 1920 to 1927 a assistant federal reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He received his Ph. B. from the university of Chioago in 1907, and from 1911 to 1917 served as assistant professor and professorial lecturer on economics, banking, investments, business cycles, and bank management, at the University of Minnesota. From 1917 to 1920 he was cashier and later vice president of the State Deposit Bank of Minneapolis...