Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words at the bottom of an executive order were the authority. As a result, on July 1, the Bureau of Mines, all except two sections, will no longer be part of the Department of the Interior under Secretary Work but will be part of the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, himself a mining engineer...
Oregon Schools. In the fall of 1922, the voters of Oregon by "initiative" passed a law, to become effective in 1926, which required that all children between the ages of 8 and 16 years (except cripples, etc.) be required to attend public schools. It was said that the Ku Klux Klan was behind the law, wishing to put parochial schools out of business, although the law was just as cruel to other private schools. A parochial school and a military academy applied for an injunction against...
...defending Blacks were not in sufficient force to attempt to hold any of the archipelago except Oahu, the chief island. They expected the Blues to attempt to establish an air base on the island of Lanai. Seven Black airplanes were dispatched to Lanai to hinder the Blues. The Blacks, with about 15,000 troops available, were required to keep 4,000 to man the fortifications. A cordon of troops was established at all the available landing beaches, and the remainder were held in reserve near the west coast, which was regarded as the most dangerous and the most likely point...
...outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi...
Herrmann with the help of two fast double plays was keeping the visitors helpless. Except for Crawley, who scored after his double, no Springfield warrior got to second base safely throughout the nine innings. The Crimson meanwhile was nicking Crawley, who assumed the pitching role in the fifth, for three more scores...