Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corn and dig potatoes where all is apartment buildings, pavements and sewers today. President Connolly, next-to-youngest in a family of eight, climbed to fame by willing work for the politicians whom he found in power when he emerged from the public schools and Columbia University's law department...
...Law was then Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower in Manhattan among financiers, and in Washington above those who were his associates when he was a Treasury "career man." Best of all, wise Agent Gilbert had contrived that he should be snug aboard the Leviathan, last week, when the Reparations Bureau released...
...Soldiers are still mopping up the city and executing suspects and looters by the wholesale." Critical readers of this despatch wondered why the forces of law and order were described by Consul Huston in such vague terms as "troops" and "soldiers." Whose troops? What soldiers? Very probably the harassed Consul did not know-perhaps no one knew. All that remains in Canton by way of "government" is a fluid group of military men whose leaders constantly bottle up one another. Their "troops," however, still retain the discipline and weapons needed to mop up a "rabble" led by "Russians...
Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise...