Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...badly embarrassed. Only that week, Agent Robert L. Taylor had had to be dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping. In Yazoo County, Miss., Federal bullets whacked into a back seat occupied by a woman and her two children...
...Jersey City, N. J., the net public debt per capita is $241-higher than in almost any other U. S. city of 30,000 or more population. The mayor of Jersey City is Frank Hague, a member of the National Democratic Committee, close friend of Candidate Smith. Upon these two facts, with colorful amplification, a one-man spectacle was staged in Jersey City for several weeks, up to last week, when the one man's amplifier, his voice, broke down...
...Received with approving cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of all parties a statement by Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain concerning the proposal of U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that a treaty "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" be signed among the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 30). Sir Austen said that the Dominions must be consulted before His Majesty's Government can formulate a reply, but that "it will be to the effect of our desire to cooperate in the conclusion of such a compact...
...Angeles, Frank Lombardi, high-school boy, equalled the world's record (9 and | sec.) for 100 yards after having been set back a yard for making a false start...
...Frank, 2b.; Bassett, e.f.; Jones, e.; Batchelder, l.f.; Kimball, 3b.; Allen and Jackson, r.f.; Nettler and Cooper, s.s.; Chapin and Fenn, lb.; Slader and Babcock...