Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which Boss Machado was able to pack Congress and the judiciary with his own henchmen, announced new general elections for Feb. 24, 1934. and restored intact the Cuban Constitution of 1901 which was inaugurated under Cuba's first and best President, the late Estrada Palma...
...amphibian roared away. That evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island in the Bahamas. The refugees spent the night aboard, next day flying on to Nassau. There Machado, haggard in his crumpled white linen suit (he had had no time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good. I expect to sleep most of the day." Britons thought it possible...
...pack went the "15?" brands of cigarets last week- from 10½? to 11½?. For once the price change was not the work of American Tobacco's George Washington Hill. This time it was retailers, long-suffering non-combatants in the war between makers of "15?" brands and the makers of "10?" brands (which were boosted...
...court action brought by the receiver for Chicago's Drake Hotel to oust the founder's sons, John & Tracy Drake, from their rent-free nine-room suites (TIME, June 19): a court order for the Drakes to pack up and move. The Drakes packed up and moved off-the Tracy Drakes on a motor trip, the John Drakes to a Sheridan Road apartment...
...regatta is being organized by Blake Dennison, the coach of Summer School rowing. He will be assisted in running of the events, by Pack Hartner as Clerk of the Course, who helped him originatae the races three years ago. N. Henry Black '96, Director of the Harvard Summer Session, officiated last year and may again be requested to judge the races...