Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game for football men devised by Major Fred W. Moore '93 received its baptism of fire at Soldiers Field yesterday when the backs and ends of the University squad reported for the first time, it was reported as entirely successful except for the fact that after a strenuous afternoon of play the contest was ended without a goal having been scored...
...Vote. Senators Couzens and Ferris (Michigan) voted against confirmation, both testifying high personal regard for Mr. Warren, but saying they could not vote for him. (Mr. Warren is not popular with the Republican organization in his native Michigan.) Senator after Senator voted. The Progressive and Insurgent Republicans, without exception, voted against confirmation. So did Hiram Johnson, administration opponent. So did all the Democrats except one, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, who expressed the opinion that the President should be given the opportunity of choosing his own official family. The vote was obviously close. Republican leaders became uneasy...
About 100,000 Fascist engineering-trades workers in the province of Lombardy walked out over a pay question. The Government, which is usually quick to act in suppressing strikes, took no action except to prohibit public meetings and a procession in Milan. Much criticism was heard from employers...
There was no news concerning the way in which the Kurds are to be put down by the Turks except that Kemal Eddin Pasha and Samy Bey, had gone by airplane to Diarbekr and that a vigorous campaign was to begin after their arrival...
...amassed a fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together...