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Longest-serving member of Congress in US history dies at 92

Robert Carlyle Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in US history, who questioned the state’s powerful coal industry, died Monday.

Unquestioningly, the Bible holds some of the greatest wisdom ever shared with mankind. But, when fallible mortals twist that wisdom…

The movement to put anti-lynching legislation in place gained new momentum with the election of FDR in 1932. Roosevelt refused to speak out.

The AAA was supposed to buy “submarginal” farmlands & resettle farm families on better farms elsewhere. It didn’t work out that way.

Cartoonists had a field day with the alphabet-soup of agencies the newly elected Roosevelt spun out starting in 1933. 15 in his first year!

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