Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listened last fortnight as a grey-haired woman pleaded piteously on the screen for her family's good name. No movie mother whose son had gone wrong was she, but Mrs. Albert Bacon Fall, wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny for arranging the Elk Hills oil lease...
...Like the Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
...last week's stockmarket plunked to the bottom President Hoover let his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew William Mellon, make an announcement which the President had been saving up as the Big-News-Item for his own first message to Congress next month, an announcement of immediate tax reduction...
...atmosphere of a mystery-melodrama was the tax announcement framed. First President Hoover held an early morning White House conference with Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Governor Roy Archibald Young of the Federal Reserve Board. So early in the morning was it and so unprepared were newsmen for such a development that Governor Young, unrecognized, entered and left the White House without being caught and catechized...
...same year President Roosevelt wrote: "I have more than once been greatly exasperated with the Kaiser myself. When I first came into the Presidency I was inclined to think that the Germans had serious designs upon South America. But I think I succeeded in impressing upon the Kaiser, quietly and unofficially and with equal courtesy and emphasis, that any violation of the Monroe Doctrine by territorial aggrandizement on his part around the Caribbean meant war, not ultimately but immediately and without delay. He has always been as nice as possible to me since...