Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a stroke of his pen, the President created five new National Monuments, making 35 in all. The penstroke took place some time ago, but publicity was just achieved. The five new monuments are: 1) Fort Wood on Bechloe's Island in New York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River...
...made. Opposition was voiced to the Anglo-Russian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 18) ; but favor was shown to a continuance of diplomatic relations. The League of Nations came in for a fair show of praise. Intention was announced of resuming work on the Singapore Naval Base (TIME...
...They argued that the Senate is a legislative body; its power to force witness is restricted to impeachment cases, election contests and cases in which attempts are made to expel members; if there was power to compel witness to testify with a view to gaining information on which to base legislation, it rested in both Houses, not in either one alone; but the investigation of the Attorney General was not conducted with the avowed purpose of finding a basis for future legislation. The power of making such an investigation did not lie in Congress; Congress was in fact usurping...
...Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
...Boston 0 3--Yale 13 3--Dartmouth 10 13--Haskell 17 7--Harvard New Hamp. 0 113 59 PROVIDENCE 0--Boston Col. 47 3--Vermont 13 6--Lowell Tech 0 43--St. Michaels 0 9--St. Stephen's 7 0--Colgate 42 0--Springfield 21 6--Sub Base 0 67 130 PITTSBURG 14--Grove City 0 0--Lafayette 10 14--W. Va. 7 26--J. Hopkins 0 0--Carnegie T. 6 7--Syracuse 7 13--Geneva 0 0--Wash. & J. 10 74 40 MAINE 37--R. I. State 0 0--Boston U. 6 0--Conn. A. C. 3 20--Bates...