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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anthony Absolute of the Senate?downright almost to the point of being domineering. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, Mr. Robinson's colleage from Arkansas, is quite a different type. His movements are slow, his manner is mild, his eyes twinkle, his wit is wicked, but he prefers to express it with a drawl rather than with a growl. And last week Senator Caraway got into a fracas. He was motoring through New York State, according to his account. His son was at the wheel. Another car, driven by a man named Clarke, bumped into the Caraway car. Mr. Clarke declared that...
...state that it has no preference whatever regarding candidates for the high office of President of Nicaragua. My Government supports no candidate and is hostile to no candidate; it desires only that free and fair elections may be held in order that the will of the people may be expressed without hindrance at the polls. My Government feels that the transference of the center of political activity of Nicaragua to Washington would be detrimental to that Government's interests and this Government therefore cannot express its views regarding any ticket...
...Autumn, passengers on the principal German express trains will be able to telephone any number in Germany or to be telephoned from any point in the country. This is to be made possible by the installation of wireless outfits on the trains...
...Persian Government instructed its Chargé d' Affaires in Washington to express to the Government of the U. S. its deepest regrets over the "unfortunate accident" and to state that everything would be done to bring the guilty persons to justice. The message indicated, however, that "the Imbrie and Seymour accident was due to their own carelessness in going to a sacred place and persisting in taking pictures. The police and army forces which went to protect them, when they were attacked by the mob, received serious injuries. Three policemen were mortally wounded and one of the soldiers died...
...course of 24 years of continuous service in the company he rose to the position of Traffic Manager. Then the Guggenheims, ever watchful for talent, secured him as traffic manager−member of the executive committee for the American Smelting and Refining Co. Then the Wells Fargo Express Co. got him for its President. In 1911 the Southern Pacific which had got along without Sproule for five years decided it could get along without him no longer. Sproule went back, as President of the road...