Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebut with a semblance of conviction. The Warrior's terms as Governor of New York had been costly, perhaps for good reasons. But the Warrior did not restate the reasons. Instead he shifted "blame" to the Republican Legislatures that had voted appropriations under him. It was defensive move Number Five...
...cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison. Nor was the ability of the young lawyers in question evaluated. The embarrassing feature for the Smiths was that of the several judges who made the assignments. two (the Hons. Joseph M. Proskauer and Bernard L. Shientag) were...
Porto Rico. The storm's first major victim was Porto Rico, which it left torn and disrupted. The island has a population of 1,400,000. It was estimated that at least half of this number were left homeless. Chaos prevented a complete count of the dead, but early reports from nine towns indicated that 263 were known to have perished. In San Juan, the principal city, 300 chattering consumptives were forced into the open. Seventy lepers, the roofs of their colony blown away, were gingerly herded into an administration building...
...many years been and would be if I had no income for the balance of the year) very many times $900 and many times $5,251. Mrs. Steuer's income tax, separately payable by her upon her income, amounts to many times $900 and a number of times...
...tremendous output of detective stories a goodly number attain the high standard of sportsmanship which gives the amateur sleuth a pleasantly difficult chance of spotting the criminal. Follows a list of recent good mysteries...