Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority leader of the House Ways & Means (revenues) Committee, renewed the attack...
This salute historic was the first ever accorded by a great power to the new Nationalist President, Chiang Kaishek. Such a salute would have been fired long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire...
...Passenger cars (including taxicabs), trucks (including ambulances, street-sweepers, buses, fire-engines...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...
...Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...