Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other made-to-order capitals for young commonwealths include: Washington, D. C.; Canberra, New South Wales; New Delhi, India...
...valuation issue with its corollary, confiscation, was clearly posed. The O'Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal...
...Five generals with a force large enough to exterminate a number of unpatriotic countrymen who have uprisen in the states of Lara, Trujillo and Portuguesa, left yesterday for those districts. Exterminate this nest of rebels from the very roots in order to free those unfortunate districts of evil doers who should be exterminated radically by material force of the government...
...disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff did not attend a dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred to in the article hereinafter complained of and did not at such a dinner dine...
...average hat size is 7⅛. Among average size takers are Calvin Coolidge and Al Jolson. John D. Rockefeller Sr. wears a 7½ John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...