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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peers of the Realm' were mightily stirred, last week, when the House of Commons sent to the House of Lords a bill providing that county councils "shall be empowered to enter and reduce rabbits upon land adjoining cultivation," if the cultivator shall have complained of damage from the rabbits...
Besides the liquor smuggled, the Federal men detected and sent back to Canada some 200 aliens who had tried to enter the U. S. disguised as "razorbacks," "alligators," lion-tamers, acrobats, elephant-scrubbers, wild persons from Borneo...
...California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious business of aviation...
...heroic dead were buried last week at Zagreb, the chief city of Croatia. Their coffins had arrived from Belgrade on a train which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part...
...evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums. . . . Now that we are about to enter the second lustrum of our regime we will submit to the nation certain fundamental laws which will be a firm foundation sustaining the future of Spain. . . . [However] we have no intention of modifying our fundamental system, which has served so well during our first lustrum...