Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil War began. With the first outbreak of hostilities Lee was offered command of the Federal forces about to invade the South. He refused, said he would never again bear arms except to defend Virginia. Therefore, he was soon commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, that "carried the rebellion on its bayonets...
...fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political...
...Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with a greater legal earning power than any Britisher except Sir John Simon...
President Calles, it is safe to say, would not have signed the new regulations, last week, except for the fact that the U. S. now has in Mexico City a new and abler-than-usual Ambassador, Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner. By large business methods and with a Morgan-sized grasp of essentials, Mr. Morrow has, in four months, cut the oil snarl which has embittered the U. S. and Mexico for a full decade...
...soon as they began to run, the crowd lost sight of them. The field was covered with mist through which, except in front of the stand, nothing could be seen very clearly. In the boxes sat a few notables, not many, for the Grand National is not a smart race but just a dangerous and famous one. Sir Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest...