Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation. The government consists of the anti-Catholic, broadly Socialist and efficiently militant forces of President Emilio Fortes Gil and General Plutarco Elias Calles?a burly, bull-necked fighter who would certainly have the sympathy of God Mexitl. Arrayed against the government are the avowedly pro-Catholic, Conservative, and less efficiently militant forces of Presidential Candidate Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies El Capitan de los Cristeros (TIME, March...
...short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from 11 to 11½ inches, entire surface to be convex, and inflated not more than 15 pounds, nor less than 13 pounds...
...announced the purchase of Associated Apparel Stores, holding company for the Newman & Benton chain of eleven cloak and suit establishments; have also bought the Spies Store, Newark, and plan soon to open stores in Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. It is intended that the Bryant chain shall eventually include no less than 100 service stations for the stout. The present Bryant system does an annual business of about $15,000,000, some 40% by mail...
...Childs directorate are Hollyday S. Meeds Jr., son-in-law of T. Coleman du Pont and Lucius M. Boomer, with whose hotel interests the du Ponts are said to be connected. So little has the Childs Co. remained the child of Childs, that sentimental Brother William appeared to own less than 3% of its stock. Nevertheless he said, on quitting: "This is the child of my efforts .... You cannot tell what will happen when you take this child away...
...that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while his physical feet will probably touch no soil more remote than Cape Cod for many months to come, he will be fit to match tales with the most hardened globe-trotter and at the expense of far less energy...