Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schwab arrived in Monrovia early in January of last year and remained in the field for eight months. Soon cases of unique ethnological specimens began to arrive in Cambridge, and the mails brought great albums of photographic film, reports, and anthropometric records...
Theodore Roosevelt began Conservation in 1907 by withdrawing 16,000,000 acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary of the Interior to allow oil prospecting, to grant oil leases. This act spawned the oil corruption of the Harding administration. Now, in the acreage it affects, the Hoover order far outdoes Roosevelt and Taft orders combined...
...This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative Paris Temps, M. Le Senateur Victor Henry Berenger-who negotiated the unratified Mellon-Berenger Franco-U.S. debt settlement-wrote lyrically: "La Banque des Nations is as necessary now as national...
...light of subsequent events, it is clear that the wicked widow thus flayed is Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...