Word: h
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate of the U. S., laboring to pass a tariff bill, paused to discuss, vote upon, and reject two proposals designed to secure independence for the Philippine Islands. After Senator William H. King of Utah had suggested immediate Philippine independence, Senator Broussard of Louisiana brought forward the same idea in modified form, together with a provision that Philippine imports should be subject to tariff duties. The King proposal was rejected; the Broussard proposal was overwhelmed...
...Christie light tank, powered with a Liberty motor, plunged and reared across a churned-up field at 40 m. p. h. With the track-laying belt removed, this tank had gone 69 m. p. h., might go 90 m. p. h. on a good road...
Unique also the William H. Welch Medical Library and new Department of the History of Medicine inaugurated this week at Johns Hopkins. None just like it exists in America. It honors Dr. William Henry Welch, 79, Johns Hopkins grand old teacher of pathology...
...Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, successfully defended a $50,000 suit brought against her by Rev. Harry H. Clark, Seattle divine, for breach of promise, in Seattle. Her plea for nonsuit granted, she was surrounded by crowds of spectators who congratulated her, smacked her hands...
...Francis H. McAdoo Matthew C. Brush Charles H. Sabin John B. Jeffress...