Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Lakin letters involved others, apparently, besides the President. He had engaged Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder, retired, onetime Ambassador to Cuba, as an assistant lobbyist. Wrote Lobbyist Lakin:
Stirred at a possible "leak" of military secrets, the War Department began an immediate investigation. In Chicago, General Crowder denied he had revealed any General Staff plans, explained that the abandonment of the U. S. Philippine traffic lane was his own idea.
Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then...
The shaft of the mine slopes down 3,500 ft. The three miners rescued alive were working on an upper level. Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast.
When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead...