Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance at the Club from 4 to 6 o'clock. A special holiday dinner was served to the men before they left for the Twentieth Century Club where the concert was followed by a dance. The Tennis Club and Country Club dances each attracted a Harvard following, while the greatest number of men went to a special entertainment given in their honor by a former University track celebrity. Due to the long run to Cincinnati before them. Buffalo was left behind at 1 o'clock...
Federzoni's potency was greatest shortly after Fascist bludgeon men had done to death the Socialist Deputy and millionaire Giacomo Matteoti-a deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator...
...would be the greatest real estate dicker in the history of New York, since Peter Minuit in 1626 bought Manhattan Island...
...with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board, did much to determine the success of what has since been recognized as by far the greatest domestic accomplishment of the Wilson administration-the modernization of U. S. banking. In 1921 Mr. Warburg founded International Acceptance...
...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...