Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
Wisconsin's action did not agitate U. S. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran. The U. S., he said, has received little or no assistance from Wisconsin's authorities, has done practically all of such enforcement as Wisconsin...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...
...Nancy Astor. At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes. Worn out by weeks of campaigning, she wept as the ballots were being counted and said: "I'm going back to Westminster anyway, and not back to Virginia as my opponents predicted. Thank God, I have never truckled to the liquor interests...
...afternoon ceremony M. Pierre Marraud, French Minister of Public Instruction, formally presented the pictures to U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour, who thanked him gracefully. Later the audience strolled about the hall to look at the pictures. They were curious to see the 1,400 most famous living Frenchmen. Beneath each portrait was a message from the subject...