Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industrial accidents stimulated the demand. Post Graduate Hospital experienced some trouble in providing high-grade instruction. Across Manhattan was Reconstruction Hospital which specialized in such work. Nothing could be wiser than to merge the two institutions, decided their directors, a process which was going forward last week. Reconstruction Hospital will be, after Jan. 1, a unit of what will be formally, as always popularly, called Post Graduate Hospital...
...time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...
...from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason...
Mounted gunmen hired by Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches?a small tribe said to number only 25?on an almost inaccessible fortified plateau, high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. "This time they cannot escape!" Fimbres exulted last week. "Blood of God's Mother, I have waited three years ! It may take till spring to starve them out, but we shall kill all who are up there except one little boy?...
...city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream...