Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you not arrange to cover San Francisco news by means of a correspondent on horseback? This would simplify local news greatly for those of us who haven't a great deal of time to devote to wading through the local press, especially the Call, the staff of which evidently depends upon TIME for Golden Gate Highlights as proved by the enclosed article clipped bodily from TIME. This would give San Franciscans six free evenings a week, daylight savings time. Thanks for solving, partially, at least, the hair-snipping mystery of 1915. Congratulations also upon your Mill Valley fire...
...front cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit?a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers...
...their air reconnaisance aided materially in governing shell fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort Hancock by the destruction of its observation and control towers and then, sweeping aside a mine field and under cover of low visibility, come close enough to pound the fort to powder. General Hero, however, saw only success in the defense operations under his command. His coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero...
Dragon Pussyfoots. Shrewdest move of the week was made by President Chiang Kai-shek of China and Foreign Minister C. T. Wang when they sought to use the general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued...
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