Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieut., S.C., U.S.A. Fort Monmouth, Oceanport...
Followed a whispered conversation between Capt. Urbina and his swarthy friends. They bowed to Capt. Morris, and slipped down the gangplank again. Almost immediately the Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered...
...blasts were blown on the Maracaibo's whistle. At this pre-arranged signal motor trucks loaded with guns and ammunition careened down to the pier. The munitions were stolen from Fort Amsterdam, three of whose 71 defenders had been killed in the raid...
After the passage of the two amendments, all that seemed lacking to start another sectional war was someone to fire on Fort Sumter. Cooler Republican heads, notably Speaker Longworth's and Leader Tilson's, moved and carried an adjournment, then sought and found a way to repair the damage injudiciously done. When Congress reassembled, Floor Leader Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote...
With characteristic independence, President Hoover will pick Dr. Work's successor. Possibilities: Secretary of War James William Good; Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee; National Committee Vice-chairman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon; National Committee Secretary Franklin William Fort of New Jersey; National Committee General Counsel James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania...