Word: generale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...
...Manhattan's National City Bank, appeared to tell of his company's interest in Cuban sugar production and a low sugar duty. His story was forthright: National City had loaned large sums to Cuban planters who had been caught in the 1920-21 sugar deflation. National City had formed General Sugars, Inc., to take and operate over 3,250,000 acres, a $30,000,000 investment. To the United States Sugar Association's low-duty lobby fund, Mr. Rentschler's bank had contributed $10,000, had spent $200,000 per year on monthly propaganda sent to 300,000 persons...
...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...
...After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
Even Dictator Primo de Rivera took the story seriously. The King was on a hunting party in Novalera, and Alba was with him. Dictator Primo de Rivera has not forgotten that Alfonso XIII was ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It might barely be that the King now fancied he could oust Primo for Alba. After much telegraphing to the Royal Hunting Lodge, the blunt, obese Dictator issued a personal and arrestingly gracious statement...