Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker race horses, bulldogs and Irish estate. Boss Croker set Richard Croker Jr. up in business with $150,000 and gave his other children $4,000 per annum each. They tried to prove him crazy, to get more. Boss Croker died...
...upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been known to favor at least temporary retention of the Reparations status quo. Therefore it was not surprising that Host Churchill kept Guest Gilbert out in the open...
...Gilbert-Baldwin-Churchill conference in London, the Agent General returned to Paris, so unobtrusively that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill set out for France-encountering very dirty weather on the Channel-and arrived upon the doorstep of the British Embassy in Paris...
...Buganda only the Kabaka himself may step upon a leopard skin, symbol of Royalty. But last week the Kabaka, clad in robes of blue and gold, led Edward of Wales to a throne chair set up beside his own and resting upon leopard skins...
Annually a reserve is set aside for the repair and alteration of the various University buildings, a reserve which is calculated to approximate the total cost. Last year the largest reserve budget, next to that of the College, was set aside for the maintenance of the Business School, the sum amounting to $38,600. Next to that in the descending scale of upkeep expenditures came the Medical School plant with $22,500.; the University buildings--University Hall, Lehman Hall, and other non-departmental structures--with $9900., and the Athletic Association with...