Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
Last week New York police, looking to quiz him for practicing medicine without a license, learned that he was beyond their reach at Fontana, Cal. He had written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect to return to New York for the rest of my life. . . . My only consolation is that this whole situation arose through circumstances entirely beyond my control." However, at Fontana last week the second Mrs. Empringham announced that he was on his way to Manhattan barely to face any accusations, medical...
...Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut which hoisted Heeney clean off the canvas. At the ringside, Heeney's wife tore...
...Giant Campolo's reach is 82 in., 8 in. longer than that of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey...
...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...