Blacking; so called from Larry Dugan, a noted shoeblack of Dublin, whose face was always smudged with his blacking. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
COMBEST Larry Ed , a Representative from Texas; born in Memphis, Hall County, Tex.,
March 20, 1945; West Texas State University, Canyon, Tex., 1969; farmer;
director, Agriculture Stabilization and…
Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1929 My Countrymen: THIS occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath…
HOPKINS Larry Jones , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., October 25, 1933; attended the public schools of Wingo, Ky.; attended Murray State University, 1951-1954;…
Senate Years of Service: 1991-2009
Party: Republican CRAIG Larry Edwin , a Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Council, Adams County, Idaho, July 20, 1945; attended the public schools…
Senate Years of Service: 1979-1997
Party: Republican PRESSLER Larry Lee , a Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Humboldt,
Minnehaha County, S.Dak., March 29, 1942; graduated,…
(Encyclopedia) Bonus Marchers, in U.S. history, more than 20,000 veterans, most of them unemployed and in desperate financial straits, who, in the spring of 1932, spontaneously made their way to…
(Encyclopedia) Agricola, GeorgiusAgricola, Georgiusjôrˈjēə əgrĭkˈələ [key], Latinized from Georg BauerGeorg Bauergāˈôrk bouˈər [key], 1494–1555, German physician and scientist, known as the father of…
