Word: longes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers in his suite...
...Doukhobors are moved to an island, it will be a continuation of a long history of forced migrations. By Alexander I (1777-1825) the sect was rounded up from various parts of Russia and colonized in Tauris. In 1840 and 1850, the Doukhobors refused to participate in military service, were sent by Nicholas I from Tauris to Transcaucasia. In 1895 Nicholas II banished over 4,000 of them to Georgia. Three years later a party of over 2,000 emigrated to Cyprus, stayed there a year, then joined some 4,000 who had gone to Canada...
...started slightly, and later said that what he had heard was: "Hello? This is Charlie Dawes. Tell the Prime Minister I'm coming right over"?click! Within 15 minutes the Ambassador was at No. 10. Heartily greeted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he planked down on the long table in the Cabinet Room a new naval offer from President Herbert Hoover...
...good friend of long suffering "Conchies" is the present Labor Government. Prime Minister MacDonald himself objected long and violently to the War. Other onetime "Conchies" throng Labor's councils. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden signed an order...
...When a sailor can tell a passenger 'your life boat is to the right' or 'to the left,' as the case may be, it will be a long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews...