Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week China simply refused to believe that Russia had offered to sell the railroad Chinese had spoken for. Furthermore, because the road was built with French money, France had a claim. Last week Japan had a solution for the tangle. It primed the puppet Manchukuo Government to try to horn in as the heir of China's rights in the railroad. The Manchukuoan board chairman of the Chinese Eastern, Li Shao-ken, loudly claimed the road for Manchukuo. He added that, though Soviet rights in the road went back no further than the 1917 Revolution, Russia has some rights...
...backing of the Machado dictatorship by U. S. banks and utility companies as an outrageous example of "dollar diplomacy." Stories of the backing of Dictator Machado by U. S. tycoons are even older than stories of Dictator Machado's murders. A few facts are undisputed. In 1924 horn-rimmed Gerardo Machado y Morales was an officer of the Santa Clara subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated...
...Thee" and "Onward Christian Soldiers"? Undaunted by occasional mistakes, undeterred by the combined sarcastic clangor from six other steeples, he crashes out his pathetic revival-meeting cacophonies without benefit of half-notes, but with a boundless enthusiasm comparable only to that of a small boy with a horn on Christmas morning. I don't know which egliso employs this generous artist, but if there is any chance of buying him off, I am willing to contribute as my share a railroad ticket to Padueah Texas. Sedgwick Mead...
...summary: HARVARD BOSTON UNIVERSITY England, g. g., Hathaway Rogers, Farmer, Cotton, Rosenberg, c.pt. c.pt., Davis, Scott Gunlach, Gardner, pt. pt., Harrington, Chase Angle, Holsapple, Amberg, 1d. 1d., Angelis, Pierce, Tofsky Feins, Murphy, 2d. 2d., Buckley, Moore, Horn Housch, c. c., Mathers, Hayes LeRoy, Way, DeWolfe, 2a. 2a., Bisserofsky Graziano, Duffield, 1a. 1a., Paterno Owens, Lunt, c.h. c.h., Muchnick, Bert Tucker, Redshaw, Skerpan, i.h. i.h., Donnao, Winnick...
HARVARD B. U. Cleaves, g. g., Hathaway Rogers, c.p. c.p., Davis David, p. p., Berteline Thorndike, 1d. 1d., Di Angelis Rabinovitz, 2d. 2d., Buckley Housen, c. c., Mathers Feins, 2a. 2a., Horn Graziano, 1a. 1a., Paterno Owens, o.h. o.h., Donna Tucker, i.h. i.h., Muchnick...