Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover accepted the resignation of David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ¶ For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis...
...found by President Hoover. The names of General Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince seemed eliminated. Other names brought forward included New Jersey's Senator Walter Evans Edge, New York's onetime (1915-27) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth jr., Ohio's automobile-maker John North Willys...
...house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing. Nonetheless he stood forth, last week, more clearly than ever...
Tall, fair-skinned, Earl D. Babst is the 59-year-old chairman of A. S. R. A., director of Great American Insurance Co., American Alliance Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...
...news nothing is too hard for the Times to tackle, nothing too high It financed Peary to the North Pole, is backing Byrd at the South Pole. Covering a suburban murder trial, it leased an entire house to take care of its correspondents, their machines and helpers. Automobiles, trains, airplanes, ships- whatever a Times newshawk needs he gets...