Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were called from the Canal Zone during the fracas, Minister Davis was hailed by Panamanians of every stripe, including even profane and eccentric Editor Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American. They named a lake in his honor. When Republican diplomats began trooping back home in 1933, Roy Tasco Davis, minus spats and cane, returned to Stephens...
...jurisdiction over hairdressers and make-up men. Next day, the hairdressers and make-up men voted to reject the terms agreed to by their officers, refused membership in the I. A. T. S. E., which has a five-year non-strike agreement with producers. Deadlocked again but now minus a conciliator, F. M. P. C. members put on their pith helmets, went back to picketing along Hollywood's barricades...
Last week the United States Court of Claims, revising its 1935 award, granted the Indians $4,408,444, approximately $1.50 per acre for the million acres given to the Arapahoes in 1878, with interest at 5% for 60 years minus the expenditures (about $1,600,000) the Government has made for Shoshone schools and roads in excess of treaty requirement. To Lawyer Tunison & associates are expected to go legal fees...
...aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus her main battery, it having been still in the foundry when she had to leave Spain. The whole Spanish cruiser force could not throw a broadside equal in weight to that of the U. S. battleship Oregon, which belonged to an armada of four battleships, one cruiser, two armed yachts...
Robert Thane was second son to a pious Abolitionist farmer in Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish...