Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last June Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster & beer-running brigadier had his head riddled with bullets (TIME, July...
People tried to remember what and when William Howard Taft declared against the 18th Amendment. One declaration was in a letter which Mr. Taft wrote in June, 1918, to a gentleman of New Haven, Conn., who had asked his opinion of the then pending Amendment. He said...
...entirely clear to the layman, this threat was not misunderstood by fearful traders. It meant, in two words: "BROKERS' LOANS." And to emphasize the point, brokers' loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
...FRONT PAGE-Bad language and good writing in a piece about Chicago newsrats (TIME, June...