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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GINO JOHN SIMI, Defender Washington, D...
...budget is a really considerable increase over the 1928-29, in fact, half a billion dollars, or roughly equivalent to the sum of all the fortunes which the John D. Rockefellers Sr. & Jr., have given away. And the 1928-29 budget was already a considerable increase over the 1927-28. And, further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect...
...duty of Ulysses Simpson Grant III (grandson) to walk observantly through the greenery of forest and pasture out of which the great parks of Washington, D. C., are carved. Last week he, director of public parks, started a vigorous campaign against "spooning, necking and petting, noticeably prevalent in darkened automobiles at night in the parks." He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children...
...opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with her husband through the entire Turkish Revolution of 1908, at which time he was successively Second Secretary, First Secretary and Charge d'Affairs...
...late U. S. citizen thus honored was famed William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, once a renowned I. W. W., later the most prominent American actively associated with the Soviet State...