Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was once an engineer named John Luther Jones, they called him Casey because he was born near Cayce, Kentucky. He piloted the Illinois Central's Cannonball...
...which concluded the War of the Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary of State Frank Billings...
...their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American Red Cross last week, when that organization's executive head, Judge John Barton Payne, made clear that the American Red Cross had withdrawn from relief work in China...
...Lady Lies. To make a play exciting, there is the principle of the tug-of-war. Author John Meehan presents a hero who is a prosperous lawyer. The lawyer is a widower; he has a mistress, three children and the intention of marrying a young lady from the Social Register...
...under William A. Brady; later still she made her debut in London, returned to Manhattan for a series of successes of which the most notable was The Green Hat, and married Guthrie McClintic. Last year she was in The Letter; last week she received rave notices, from even St. John Ervine of the New York World...