Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago is changing a little. The Chicago Crime Commission, under a small, fearless, 76-year-old lawyer, named Frank J.Loesch, has set out to clean up the crime capital of the U. S. beginning at the top with Chief of Police Michael Hughes. In the old days it was a mark of distinction to be seen at gangster funerals, but during the Loesch prosecutions, probably not even U. S. Senator Deneen of Illinois would...
Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board said: "The amount missing is negligible. I consider the story another bit of British propaganda against American shipping. The figure of $500,000 was set by British newspaper men who were absolutely in no position to state the amount supposed to have been stolen...
...mark of favor" precedent was set in 1817 when George III created retiring Speaker Charles Abbott a baron; but the mark was not subsidized at viscountcy until...
...phrases "birth control" and "human stock" fell harshly on the ears of Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland. He promptly seized an occasion to set forth the traditional view of his Church. Said he, to a graduating class of nurses at the Charity Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born...
...Lancastrian, "Horn" grew up with all the folklore of a yarn-swapping race, and out of remembered bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp exchange of their arrows for rocks catapulted from the majestic ship of none other than "Julius Seaser...