Word: marred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren, former Ambassador to Japan and, until a few months ago, Ambassador to Mexico, to be Attorney General. There was argument in the Senate and Mr. Warren's nomination was the only one not acted on by the Senate of the 68th Congress before it adjourned on Mar. 4. Hence the nomination remained over for the new Senate to act upon...
...Mellon announced that he felt he must take action on the memorandum. Mr. Couzens had made his tax return on Mar. 13, 1920. The Treasury has just five years to reopen such cases, unless the taxpayer waives his right in this respect. The other minority stockholders had signed such waivers. Mr. Couzens was asked to sign one until the Treasury had time to investigate the charges in the memorandum. Instead, he appeared on the floor of the Senate, read the memorandum, denounced it as persecution and declared he would sign no waiver. The Treasury, with only a few hours...
...Massachusetts, the state Senate defeated a bill to repeal a fine of $100 for any woman wearing a long protruding hatpin. The House had previously passed the repealer (TIME, Mar. 9) on the ground that the law was no longer necessary. The Senate argued that fashion might repeat herself...
...armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...
This picture showed the vertical city in the very moment of its demolition by the earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen...