Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long-standing controversy over Tacna-Arica has been settled substantially m accordance with
...first official conference, Secretary Hyde said: "Don't try to make me a dirt farmer because I am not. I'm a lawyer. It's supposed to be good politics to claim to be a farmer but farmers don't want to be fooled that...
...eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
...other things that tended to increase the heat in already superheated Washington: 1) "Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade in U. S. boats": 2) "Only 2% to 5% of the liquor in the U. S. comes from Canada." Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran answered statement No.1: "No one is in a position to know whether the boats . . . are Canadian-owned or American-owned because nearly all vessels which Canada has reported as clearing for the U. S. with liquor cargoes are not recorded in the U. S." Statement No. 2 was particularly...
...longer a Congressman, just a platform-lecturer on a holiday, Dryman Upshaw arrived in Manhattan. He walked into the offices of the New York Graphic and asked to speak to its publisher and his good friend, Bernarr Macfadden. Publisher Macfadden was not there, so the caller said to Editor M. H. Weyrauch: "This is my vacation and I'd like to be a reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that...