Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation which gave Switchman Cramer some relief. Fluid again accumulated. So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid drain off. With the fluid pressure removed the heart eased back into normal location...
...approached the Pole. Amundsen and Ellsworth had found Nobile in the navigator's cabin, excitedly reminding Riiser-Larsen that "I am captain of the ship." There had been feeling between the Norwegian and Italian members of the crew that arose from purely temperamental differences and even from the minor annoyance of Nobile's fox-terrier bitch, Titina, who often occupied one of the only two chairs in the gondola. There had been a scene at Nome when Nobile had insisted upon his right as an Italian officer to send reports of the flight to II Duce...
Pennsylvania. To the major irregularities of civic conduct in Pennsylvania-the primary slush funds and Governor Pinchot's petticoat "supergovernment" with the W. C. T. U. (TIME, July 5, CRIME)-may be added a minor sideshow at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. The Sesquicentennial itself will probably come out on the wrong side of the ledger, but Philadelphians are consoled by the knowledge that local politicians will profit handsomely in real estate adjacent to the exhibition site, which it was their august privilege to select...
...Rejected the Fess Bill for farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...
...transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference between now and December.) ¶ Passed numerous pension, local, and minor bills; adjourned until November 10, when it will sit as a court of impeachment for the trial of Judge George Washington English of Illinois (TIME, May 17). The House- ¶ Passed Army Air Bill, the last of three big air expansion measures, providing for expenditure...