Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases of liquor whisked in every week, Administrator Calhoun had shrewdly plotted his concerted raid. Following up radio clues, he had learned all the privy affairs of his prospective victims, names of leaders, location of substations, connections with reputable banks and lawyers. When all seemed prime, he launched his attack. After the first reports from his lieutenants, he exulted over a complete dry-up of the district. Later came surprises and disappointments. Surprises: capture of Emanuel ("Mannie") Kessler, "King of Bootleggers" and his partner Morris Sweetwood, both onetime Atlanta timeservers; both thought to have reformed; discovery among syndicate papers...
...recent visit of the British Prime Minister, besides paying the way for an international arms conference, has focused attention on the British Labour Party whose rapid rise to power since the war is generally so little understood in this country. The Vagabond has always held a rather confused idea of this party which has twice given Britain a socialist government. A mixture of lofty idealism and practical politics which seems to have succeeded in selling a left wing government to one of the world's most conservative communities certainly presents a fascinating subject. This morning the Vagabond intends to clear...
...Saratzeanu?" cried several flabbergasted representatives, and others indignantly moved for a temporary suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...
...Rooster Saratzeanu. Only nine representatives voted for Prince Carol. The remaining 22 ballots went to a popular Army corps commander, General Presan. The 39 members of the Liberal party, die-hard partisans of Queen Marie, abstained from voting entirely, announced themselves "scandalized" at the Peasant Prime Minister's last minute whip-cracking for a nonentity. Reporters and photographers found him totally ignorant of what had been passing in Parliament, astounded by the news...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald continues his three-week visit to U. S. & Canada; Oct. 25-sails from Quebec for England...