Date: October 4, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) The annual convention of the American Legion, beginning at Boston on October 6, will be a notable event. As we get farther from the war and the veterans grow older, their meetings have less of the aspect of a frolic of exuberant youth and […]
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Date: May 29, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) Decoration Day is our best solemn national holiday which ought to be observed with impressive ceremony. No lapse or diminution should be permitted in the yearly devotion which the people pay to the memory of those who have served in our armed forces. As […]
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Date: January 28, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) One trouble with the argument proposing to revive business by distributing a cash bonus among the veterans of the World War is that it proves too much. If only that were necessary to make good times probably we now should have our greatest peace-time prosperity, […]
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Date: February 17, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) The nervous exhaustion of the Congress always becomes apparent near the end of a short session. It is felt that something or perhaps many things must be done to establish a political record. If the country itself is in an uncertain condition, business distracted, people […]
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Purpose: To Change the Boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest Date: July 17, 1924 (Original document available here) Whereas, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain areas from the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, and restoring the public lands subject to disposition therein to entry by […]
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