Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did the President commute the punishment of Gerald Chapman, mail robber, so that Gerald Chapman, murderer, might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait...
Discussion of the CRIMSON'S Football Program has already gone far enough to establish at least one fact beyond all further question. Major Cavanaugh in his speech before the Debating Union asserted with great gusto and assurance that he had heard of no overemphasis of football at New Haven, that no hint of it had come from Princeton, and that any one who mentioned such a thing at Hanover would be shot at dawn. But it seems that the Major was a bit premature...
...responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno may prevail among the powers now meeting at Peking [see CHINA] . . . [and establish] peace as firmly in the East as we hope we are in the course of establishing it in the West...
...Even more impressive were the sales for last October by Montgomery Ward & Co. of $21,964,882-the largest month in the history of the concern. Sales of both concerns for last month were larger than for any previous month, and it is freely predicted that both companies will establish new high records of monthly sales during the coming year...
There is still a Tribune in Chicago. Last week it published an announcement: "Mr. Patterson will establish his headquarters in New York to administer the affairs of the News and Liberty. Colonel McCormick will stay in Chicago and manage the Tribune and the paper mills." Where two men had stood together to manage one paper, they must stand apart to manage three. And the deduction? "The bulldog's tail," said reasoners, "is making a million wags...