Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walking stiffly and erect as became an old soldier of many medals and a onetime Prime Minister of the Imperial Son of Heaven, grizzled, rheumatic Baron Giichi Tanaka, 66, last week entered his Tokyo house late one night after a state banquet. To the house boy who helped him off with his shoes the courtly Tanaka bade goodnight with disarming cheerfulness, eased his rheumatic limbs into bed, fell immediately and heavily to sleep. Waking suddenly in the night, he summoned the house boy who roused the Baron's family. To them the Baron quietly announced that he felt "very...
...mastered early the intricacies of warfare, proved a keen staff officer in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. Thrice Minister of War, he was a valued member of the Supreme War Council when he died. Released from the Army for the State in 1925 by special edict of the late Emperor Yoshihito, General Tanaka devoted himself to the then important Seiyukai (Conservative) Party -reputedly oldest in Japan. He soon became its sagacious leader and led it to power once more as Prime Minister...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan; by Mrs. Marie Louise Hamilton, daughter of C. Ledyard Blair, rich Manhattan broker; at Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion, mental cruelty...
...Also a Harvard graduate, also a lawyer, also a President's son was the late great Robert Todd Lincoln who died last year. Modest, retiring, he gained fame through his deeds rather than his name. Longtime head of Pullman Co., he was also director of many a Chicago corporation. He was onetime Secretary of War, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain...