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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office in his State") and later elected to the U. S. Senate...
...Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam...
...Current expenditures . . . of the Army and Navy constitute the largest military budget in the world and at a time when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any time in more than half a century...
Some potent Britons evidently feared last week that Manhattan might get the bank. "Will Wall Street Swallow Europe?" editorialed Viscount Rothermere. publisher of one of the world's largest newspapers. London's Daily Mail. Over his own signature Tycoon Rothermere warned, "Wall Street has become another world power, with more authority than the League of Nations, with more subtlety than Bolshevism...
...Largest U. S. outdoor advertising company, responsible for a large proportion of roadside billboards; controls Thos. Cusack Co. and 20 other subsidiaries) Net income, 2nd quarter...