Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the State of Illinois v. Len Small, et al., began in 1921, was based on acts committed by the Governor in 1917, at which time he was state treasurer. As treasurer he deposited some millions of dollars of Illinois money in a bank controlled by one of his friends, the late State Senator E. C. Curtis. The bank paid Illinois 2% interest and lent the money to Chicago packing houses at 8% interest rate. Enemies of Mr. Small maintained that he, as well as the bank, profited on this transaction. In fact, Representative Miller in the oration previously...
Fifty golden guineas ($255) and an added purse of $15,000 were "to be run for," in the language of Victoria, Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then...
...occasion warranted. They took his advice in the matter of easing up on the Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna after the great fire. All Turks are sure, with proved reason, that Admiral Bristol is their inflexible, understanding friend...
...first time the Chamber of Deputies voted down, last week, a measure proposed by Premier Raymond Poincaré's present "Sacred Union" Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2 et seq.). The Cabinet has stood unshakable until now, because of its great achievement in rescuing the franc from collapse and more than doubling its gold value. But today, with this crisis passed, and with a general election scheduled for next year, party strife is reviving. The vote last week was on a matter of no intrinsic importance; but it proved, by a count of 265 to 256 against the Cabinet, that Premier...
...thousand two hundred rifles, 272 machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered last week to the U. S. forces in Nicaragua by the Liberal and Conservative armies, heretofore engaged in a civil war (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge, supervised this operation, cabled: "The civil war in Nicaragua is now definitely ended...