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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew...
*Famed in the annals of moral turpitude is the case of Vera, Countess Cathcart. In 1926 a U. S. District Court found that she had admitted committing what is regarded by most law as an act involving moral turpitude, namely adultery. U. S. law further states that a person making...
Public hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover...
Said Sheriff Smith from his hospital bed: "I wish there was no such thing as prohibition. I'm through with it. . . . Try to enforce the law and see what happens."
The Passion of Joan of Arc (French). You might not think there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by...