Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deserters. First to square off at the President's farm program was florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate...
John Pierpont Morgan returned to Paris and the Second Dawes committee last week, having shaken off a cold by cruising the Adriatic in his black yacht Corsair with the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April 29).
On the day in 1914 that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery. The band played "Die Wacht am Rhein" and the Emden cleared decks to commence her...
It was the custom of the Emden to travel accompanied by a coal tender and, usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded...
Two years ago as "Chang of Shantung" he wrung more than ten million dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30...