Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington Koo, Ambassador at Washington; and today that post is held by his nephew-in-law, Dr. Alfred...
Further researches revealed to Mr. Brand that Mr. Hoover "saw fit to manipulate the buying forces" during the War, preventing farmers from getting more than $2.20 per bushel for wheat when "otherwise the price would have been $5 to $10 per bushel...
...Manhattan. The critics, with two exceptions, sneered at it. Cut-rate seats and distribution of free passes kept it alive for the first month. Then it began to take. One man (Brander Matthews) did say it was "a perfectly constructed and played comedy." Another man and two women saw it seventeen times. During the second and third years of its run, fashionable folk flocked to it after dinner parties. In the middle of its fifth year, after 2,400 performances on Broadway it closed...
...startling, perhaps a rude question to fire at a lady as she entered a hall to conduct a political rally. But U. S. Representative Louis T. McFadden, of branch-banking law fame, saw fit to fire it at Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, who is contesting his seat in Pennsylvania's 14th District. The meeting was in Canton, Pa., Mr. McFadden's home town, last fortnight. The Cantonese are not very particular about liquor and smoking, even for women, but Mrs. Pinchot is running Dry, like her militant husband who used to govern Pennsylvania (1923-27). Mrs. Pinchot is running...
...George David Stewart, president of the American College of Surgeons, was unveiled in his presence in the Carnegie Lecture room of the Bellevue Medical College, many old and wealthy men stood by with bare heads. One of them even tried to make a speech. The people gasped when they saw him come forward. It was George F. Baker...