Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week many American newspapers have printed lurid tales of the strike of the tobacco workers in Greece. These stories which emanated from Vienna and Belgrade told of scores being killed and hundreds wounded in riots in various Macedonian cities; of the mutiny of a portion of the fleet; of a Communist revolution which was declared to be in progress; of fighting behind barricades in the streets of Piraeus, and of other dire happenings...
Begun and completed in the past tense was the article William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., wrote about President Coolidge in the August (1928) Plain Talk. Excerpts...
...Year's Day at the Treasury Department. Instead of making resolutions for the future, the Treasury custom is to review the past. Secretary Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon...
...stand for. But Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, quick and trig, said: "Our common enemy, who has just dispersed his forces at Kansas City, is waiting ?oh, how eagerly!?for the old-fashioned friction that has unfortunately characterized so many Democratic conventions in the past. . . . The G. 0. P. is depending upon us to 'spill the beans' here. Let us disappoint them. I ask for speed on this convention, not to becloud good judgment but to spell efficiency...
...superior player critics pointed to Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby, manager, second baseman of the Braves, leading the National League at bat with an average close to .400. Some sporting writers, fond of big words, spoke of him as a genius, others, with a leaning for biography, sketched his past, beginning with the summer of 1913. Rogers Hornsby was 17 that summer. He had been playing on the high school team in Winters, Tex. When he had been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo...