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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...year's first snow stimulated numerous midshipmen. Navy 30, West Va. Wesleyan...
...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the day George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
...Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...