Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and friends had shadowed the petit jury which was trying him for criminal conspiracy, and the further evidence that Detective William J. Burns and aides had perjured themselves in an effort to impugn U. S. agents for jury-tampering (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). But the involved Fall-Sinclair oil scandals were not altogether without further lucubrations last week...
Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, reprimanded by the Navy Department and asked to make no more speeches as the result of his attacks on Navy inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.) , made a speech in Philadelphia last week ? a short speech meant not to be offensive. Among a few other things, he said: "I could make a speech here tonight that would bring headlines in tomorrow's papers. But I am not the type that seeks notoriety...
Republican leaders were concerned, disturbed, even vexed by the Borah statements. He is a Republican of much influence. Lately intimate with the strategically potent insurgent Senators (Nye, Norris, McMaster, Brookhart, et al.), Senator Borah even looms, not as a candidate, but as a possible disputant of the G. O. P.'s presidential choice. G. O. P. leaders muttered that Prohibition will not be in the party platform. They wished Senator Borah would stop talking...
After weeks of argument and negotiation(TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.), President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree granting to the U. S. most-of the low tariff rates which U. S. trade enjoyed prior to the recent French tariff revision. The decree will be effective only until such time as a permanent commercial treaty between the two countries can be negotiated, and this depends upon the findings of the U. S. Tariff Commission's enquiry into the possibility of reducing the existing duties on French silk, textiles, perfumes and other deluxe articles. It is not thought possible that...
...only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned the courage of Bunnell, Kline, et Al? (Ed Note--Just who this fellow Al is we don't know, but we at least won't question his courage...