Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lorrain A. Thurston, publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser, was one of the commissioners who brought about the final annexation of the Islands...
...agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian marsh. No. 1401 had to chug back to its dock for repairs...
Restlessly Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores awaited at the President's Palace, Chapultepec, last week. Pope Pius XI's final word on the settlement of Mexico's three-year-old Church v. State feud...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...Money from this, as from other A. P. C. sales, reverted to the U. S. Treasury. A recently passed law refunds 80% of the purchase price to original "enemy owners." The remaining 20% will be returned when final settlements under the Young Plan are made...