Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important to the Army. Hence to permit the building of a bridge or to undertake the digging of a Panama Canal the War Department must be called upon, and the Department must call upon its warrior-engineers. When an engineer is President, it is but logical that things should happen in the War Department...
...Francisco, 5,000 resolute feminine socialites agreed to ignore all invitations to liquor-livened social functions. If they should happen on an unconstitutional party unaware, however, they conceded they would stay, but not drink...
...were discovered in Lumber Wood. Brigadiers McNary and Steiwer of Oregon with other western Republican officers -Johnson of California among them -were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers to yield the ground to them for a division of the spoil. Fearing the result of such fraternizing, the Republican...
...Crooks' Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...
...stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition stop claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...