Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties. Their missions were successfully completed when into McGrady's room at the Lynwood Hotel (where Mr. Hoover was feasted) broke a masked mob at 2 a. m. McGrady was seized, placed in a taxi, threatened with death if he ever returned, deported to the Virginia-Tennesee line at Bristol...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
Evidently it is not news that the only Priest-Prime Minister in Europe has resigned; nor does it seem worth printing that his resignation is attributed in Vienna and Rome to a "suggestion" from Pope Pius XI. Undeserving of a line is the fact that there are in Austria two irregular armies, both anxious to try a bloody bout for Power. It is not even worth explaining that at the root of the political crisis there is a law-championed by the Communists and fought by the Catholics-which today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses...
...school that brings education into sections of Ontario in which little red schoolhouses have not as yet been established. Yet this corporation is not primarily in the hotel, the steamship, the agricultural or the pedagogic business. It is a railroad company, which operates more than 20,000 miles of line, thousands of miles more than any U. S. railroad.* Known on the Manhattan Stock Exchange by the symbol CD, it is more generally referred to as Canadian Pacific Railway...
With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...