Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlantic Coast Line ("Tolerated...
Seaboard Air Line...
...Lord Passfield that Mr. Luke would not be dismissed did not alter the fact that the Acting High Commissioner had been superseded in authority by the return to Jerusalem last week of High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor. That Sir John presently received instructions to take an unmistakably pro-Jewish line was strongly suggested by the tone of his next proclamation at Jerusalem: "I have learned with horror of atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood-thirsty evildoers, of savage murders perpetrated upon the defenseless members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron...
...categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes of the line (TIME, July...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...