Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five days that have elapsed since then, no trace has been found of the simian wanderer. It was reported recently that he had been seen Wednesday near President Lowell's house, heading for the Union. But it was impossible to verify this rumor and all search in the vicinity has proved futile...
...first known white-faced visitor to come to this continent, Leif Ericson, being converted to Christianity, was so eager to carry the gospel to others that he brought a priest back with him from Scandinavia to Greenland, whence he himself went forth later in search of further shores. Nearly a thousand years later there has come to America a primate among Scandinavian priests, Dr. Nathan Soederblom, the distinguished head of the Church in Sweden and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala...
...Secretary Hughes had proposed to several nations that the search and seizure limit for rum ships be extended from three miles to twelve miles from the U. S. coast. The other nations tacitly agreed that Great Britain should set the pace in the matter. This was agreeable to the State Department because no arrangement can be satisfactory without Great Britain's participation...
Secretary Hughes suggested that, if a treaty were made for twelve-mile search and seizure, it should also include a provision that foreign ships might come into our territorial waters with liquor under seal. The British reply, while unsympathetic to extension of the three-mile limit, did not preclude further negotiation. It also promised that the proposal would be considered at the Imperial Conference, which opens in London on Oct. 1 (see page...
Berlin police began a search for foreign currency, principally dollars and pounds. On the Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfürstendam, 27 raids took place and vast quantities of real money was confiscated. Foreigners were treated like nationals, except when they could prove that they were in transit, when they were allowed to keep their money. All persons received the privilege of calling at the police station after two days to receive the value of their money in marks...