Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully armed, with bands playing, a battalion of the South Wales border regiment marched through Jerusalem. The city quieted but heavy fighting was reported in country districts. Airplanes searched for marauding Arabs, swept them with machine-gun fire. Lifta, an Arab village said to be headquarters of the attack, was bombed...
...choleric Chancellor Snowden was losing the support of British financiers came at London from Thomas William Lamont, brisk, decisive, crinkly-eyed partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. Chatting with a correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly 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...
...five members of the Arbitral Board agree," said Justice Swift, "that the cotton industry is in an exceedingly depressed condition needing an immediate palliative...
...collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
...General Manager of the British-owned Mexicano Railway?a $50,000,000 line connecting Mexico City with the major port of Vera Cruz?is close-mouthed J. D. W. Holmes. Last week he said: "We shall not have to wait long to see the complete bankruptcy of this line if the projected labor law is enacted...