Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE
Simultaneous with the release of Secretary Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some...
...speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob, of the General Motors; Owen D. Young of the General Electric; and William H. Woodin of the American Locomotive Company, big business will not continue its control of the government...
Coach Horween elevated W. D. Ticknor '30 to a position on the first team line, John Parkinson '29 filling the team B right guard berth. Ticknor and F. A. Clark '29 alternated at guard and tackle in an effort to find the strongest forward wall combination...
...John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...