Word: set
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...
Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but left for another time any attempt to get its 19 systems off paper and into operation...
...attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending on the number of convictions obtained) are set on his head. The underworld "grapevine" reported that potent underworldlings would pay double that amount for his delivery to them. In full cry detectives and gangsters deployed for a mid-continent man hunt...
...Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin...