Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two days later, armed with his appointment credentials from Governor Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself...
Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections...
Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor Frank G. Allen ordered his Attorney-General to take "right and proper" action. The article, by Walter W. Liggett, was called "Bawdy Boston." Its charges, stretching over...
Bootlegging. "Largest and best paying racket in Boston." An annual $60,000,000 is spent in Boston's 4,000 speakeasies or paid to 5,000 Bostonian bootleggers. The liquor ring is bossed by a onetime policeman who on the side dabbles in a trucking business, restaurants, cigar stores...
4) Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which last week issued an oblique attack upon the Federal Farm Board.