Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeated heart of Democracy back Upon the sidewalks of New York...
...paraders trudged by the White House, turned around before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off to the police station, thoroughly pleased with their fate...
...good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
...time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers...
After a bit the trooper came back. "He says, 'Go in and get them. The warden will have to take his chances...