Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your June 3 number appeared a letter from Mr. John M. Vorys, Columbus, Ohio, giving a description of official decapitation by the sword in China...
...Adopted (69-5) a resolution amending its secrecy for executive sessions. C. Confirmed Ferry K. Heath as assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Arch Coleman as First Assistant Postmaster General; John W. Philp as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General...
...distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...
...husbandman's complaint, expressed through his representatives to the Senate committee, was specific: By raising tariff rates on manufacturers and raw materials as well as on agricultural products, the House bill had failed to diminish the gap of economic inequality between Industry and Husbandry. Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, stated it thus: Industry enjoys a 40% tariff protection; the House bill raised Husbandry's protection to 31%, another 9% must be forthcoming from the Senate...
ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES- Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). According to her publishers, Elinor Wylie arranged for publication this slim volume of tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...