Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...26th is the "Yankee Division." National Guardsmen from Maine. They have placed their church not upon the ancient stones of the old site, but on the tourist-ridden highway from Paris to Château-Thierry and Metz; not over the tombs of long-dead Frenchmen, but beside the 2nd Division cemetery...
...until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem...
...over capacity in inmates at the present time and Leavenworth is 87%, all of which is the cause of infinite demoralization and the direct cause of outbreaks and trouble. . . . Our plans necessitate an expenditure of about $5,000,000 and will comprise some additions and revision of the old prisons and probably a new prison somewhere in the Northeastern States...
...Berger returned to the House as Representative of the Fifth Wisconsin District. He was defeated for re-election last November. His chief legislative hobbies: 1) Abolition of the Constitution; 2) Substitution of a nationwide referendum for the Senate; 3) Repeal of the 18th Amendment; 4) An old age pension bill; 5) Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones; 6) Unemployment insurance...
...seized by a group with Communistic leanings. They declined to accept arbitration and forced a strike which lasted for nearly six months, cost the union treasury some $3,500,000 in cash reserve, the workers some $30,000,000 in wages. The strike was a virtual failure. So the old officials stepped back in and reorganized...