Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Telegrams swarmed into the White House-most of them congratulated the President; no one threatened to assassinate him. Meanwhile, on a horse in San Marcos Desert Camp, Ariz., sat Frank O. Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent...
...China sailed last week from San Diego, Calif., a Quaker who has helped to put down 22 revolutions in his day, and later fought to make of Philadelphia a "dry" metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
...prominent, long-to-be-remembered outrage occurred in San Antonio last year on the final day of the Texas Open Golf Championship. Bobby Cruickshank, diminutive but skillful, came to the 72nd green, found a short putt between himself and victory. The gallery politely turned to stone as Cruickshank commenced to aim. Not a sound was heard as Cruickshank continued to aim. Long, noiseless seconds passed while Cruickshank aimed some more. It was to be an important, lucrative putt. As Cruickshank drew back his putter, a horrid dissonance shattered the atmosphere. From the branches of a nearby tree came thick words...
Archery-golf was originated four years ago in San Francisco, not for meteorological reasons. A big game hunter, archery enthusiast, held golf in low esteem, challenged a golfing friend, each to use his favorite weapons. Last year it was introduced in less favored climes as a winter sport. It "caught on." This winter has seen the game in high favor at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, other snowbound golf centres...
Also last week, news came from Paris that Ernest Rodriguez, 17, onetime employe of the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, had been apprehended and convicted for a $6000 series of check forgeries beginning at Butte, Mont., and passing through Reno, Denver, Toronto, Montreal, Havana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lucerne, Naples, Rome, Florence, Nice, Berne, Madrid, back to Paris...