Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailors on the U. S. S. Procyon last week prepared to receive a new commanding officer. From his country home in Rhode Island, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder hurried to the Procyon, off the Pacific Coast, eager to get back into active service after almost two years of penal idleness...
With these words and a few more President Hoover last week started the Federal Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A...
(Warner). This story is taken from a musical comedy popular several years ago -something about a football player who had gone into the bond business, and his boss, and the boss's wife, and his secretary. There were good tunes in it; you heard them wherever you went to...
Whatever his aims, he remains a good soldier. In a dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers...
In Peking Foreign Minister C. T. Wang announced the end of all diplomatic relations between China and Soviet Russia. He eased off the threat of war thus: "We are not inimical to Soviet Russia. Positively we are not unfriendly. But we will not tolerate Soviet propaganda."