Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which...
Proud of his success thus far, confident that he can jam the whole Five Year Program through, Dictator Stalin announced last week that he would add another billion dollars to Russia's budget for 1930. thus raising the Soviet Government's total expenditure to five billion dollars per annum (13...
When no further reports came in, flyers said: "Probably some damn fool trying to be spectacular." But oldtime seamen had another theory: now that the sea has taken so many lives in airplanes, perhaps there is a Flying Dutchman of the Air; an outbound plane that mariners will hear and...
Came news last week that the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) had changed the city's name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population...
¶ In an official note handed to the Ger man Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that...