Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back in Rapid City, S. Dak., President Coolidge heard the complaint of a group of Indians from Quapaw, Okla., who said they had lost $60,000,000 worth of oil royalty rights through the acts of one-time (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall...
...During a state dinner in Ottawa, Edward of Wales made one of his highly infrequent references to the day when he may become king and emperor. Referring to the concept of the British Empire as a group of autonomous communities, all loyal to the Crown, he said...
...Barring the possibility of a coup d'etat by one of the Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
After that conference, the Journal of Commerce charged last week, "The little New York group that dominates the Federal Reserve System came to Chicago and tried to induce the directors here [of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank] to cut the [re-discount] rate and afford pretext to New York. The request was flatly and somewhat indignantly refused. borrowed at a low rate, can be reloaned at a slightly higher rate...
...town hall park at Duisburg, Germany, was a statue- "Kneeling Woman"-one of the best works of Sculptor Lehmkuhl. Connoisseurs thought her inspiring, chaste, beautiful. Another group of townsfolk thought that she needed clothing, so they occasionally wrapped her in bedsheets at night. Police were assigned to protect her. Last week some vulgarians ousted the police, dragged "Kneeling Woman" from her pedestal, dismembered her, carried her away in pieces...