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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...
...father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...
...Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...
Died. Moses Edwin Clapp ("The Black Eagle of Minnesota"), 77, Washington lawyer, longtime Republican Senator from Minnesota (1901-17), Progressive associate of the late, great Robert Marion La Follette; of apoplexy; at his country home, Union Farm (once part of George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the 1916 Minnesota primary. Senator Clapp was defeated, as was the late U. S. Representative Charles A. Lindbergh. The victor was Frank Billings Kellogg. In 1927 Mr. Clapp rescued his small granddaughter from drowning in the Potomac, suffered a lasting shock...
...bill... which passed the two Houses at the last session of Congress, having appeared to me liable of abuse..., and therefore not been signed; and having been presented at an hour too near the close of the session to be returned with objections for reconsideration, the bill failed to become a law." Other Presidents who have expressly or implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld...